Two professors from Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have received a $1.5-million, three-year grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The project involving Christopher Brinton, assistant professor of ECE, and David J. Love, the Nick Trbovich Professor of ECE, is titled “Network-Aware Distributed Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion for Spectrum System Intelligence.” Brinton is the PI on the project, which also includes collaborators at the University of Kansas.

Four professors from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are recipients of 2021 Faculty Excellence Awards from Purdue University’s College of Engineering. The awards recognize, encourage and promote outstanding contributions of faculty within the College and Purdue.

Generous financial and entrepreneurial support from Intel and from College of Engineering alumni is powering a College-led initiative to develop and bring to market robotic and related technologies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and potentially other diseases.

Providing a “home away from home” to combat mid-day exhaustion for students – that’s the idea behind the winning project in Purdue ECE’s Ideas to Innovation Challenge. The competition is a fun and effective way for aspiring Purdue students to form interdisciplinary teams and propose ideas aimed at solving important societal problems, improving people’s lives, and making the world a better place.

Since launching in September 2020, the Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) hasn’t let the COVID-19 pandemic hamper its goals.

It’s one thing to learn concepts and principles through lectures and book reading. That academic foundation is essential, and it’s typically the mainstay of undergraduate education.

Matthew Gaydos, a PhD student in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow.

Purdue University has launched the Center for Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME) with support from industry partners and a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)-funded workforce development program.

An ECE student was part of the top team at the 27th annual Student Soybean Innovation Competition. Nate Nauman, a sophomore in computer engineering, and his teammates Cai Chen and Emmanuel Alagbe topped six other teams to claim the $20,000 prize. The competition, sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance, encourages Purdue student teams to create new products or materials from soybeans.

David Inouye, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, has won the Rising Star award from Purdue’s Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP). CRISP has a program for recognizing outstanding technical contributions by faculty at two levels of seniority. The first award, called "Outstanding Star," is for senior Associate and Full Professors and the second, called "Rising Star," is for Assistant and junior Associate Professors.