Alumnus William B. Elmore was honored in two events on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus for his $25-million gift to name the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In collaboration with two universities, Purdue University was awarded a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to develop a fundamental understanding of topological systems incorporating plasma elements.

Digital transformation is the order of the day, and semiconductors and microelectronics are foundational elements of a digital strategy. The worldwide shortage of semiconductors—tried to buy a car lately?—may have been caused by pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, but the silver lining is that it has brought into sharp focus the need for more design, engineering and manufacturing capacity in order to keep pace with the drive to put digital smarts everywhere.

A multi-disciplinary effort between the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is working toward developing low-cost, reliable soil sensors that could reduce their price from several hundred dollars to just a few cents each.

Arijit Raychowdhury, alumnus of the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, effective December 1.

Traditional computers are fast, but nothing like the speed of light—at 186,000 miles per second, you can crunch numbers awfully quick. That’s a big reason why optical photonics are being used for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to greatly increase bandwidth and speed.

Graphene has been the focus of intense research in both academic and industrial settings due to its unique electrical conduction properties. As the thinnest material known to man, graphene is essentially two-dimensional and has distinct electronic and photonic properties from conventional 3D materials.

Soham Saha has been awarded the 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award for his work on all-optical switching. Saha earned his PhD in Fall 2021 from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the field of nanophotonics.

The U.S. Department of Defense is awarding $2.8 million to a collaborative group of Purdue University professors in order to develop a quantum education program at Purdue.

Two ECE professors advancing quantum science have been chosen to receive the university's most prestigious research and scholarship awards. Each recognizes recent accomplishments of high significance and impact.