Ashwin Vazhayil spent the Spring 2026 semester on co-op with Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Findlay Ohio

Purdue University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate programs continue to rank among the nation’s best, with electrical engineering rising to No. 8 and computer engineering ranked No. 9 in the U.S. News & World Report 2026 edition of Best Graduate Schools.

The Bement award recognizes Purdue faculty for recent outstanding contributions in pure and applied science and engineering. Li is a leading expert in quantum sensing, levitated optomechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

A Purdue-led project that wirelessly charges moving electric trucks has received a major state honor. Drive Clean Indiana named the Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) project the Innovative Project of the Year.

Over the next five years, the United States needs at least 50,000 trained semiconductor engineers. Purdue launched its Semiconductor Degrees Program (SDP) in 2022 to help meet this challenge.

Junghoon Kim’s presentation, “Active Gate Drive with Optical Communication and Integrated Power and Signal Systems in Series Connected SiC MOSFETs,” focused on a new way to help high-power electronic systems work more efficiently and reliably.

The research is among the first to focus on Spanish deepfake speech at this scale. While much of the existing work in synthetic speech detection has centered on English and Chinese, the Purdue team created a large Spanish dataset designed to help researchers detect fake audio and identify which system produced it.

Ten students from Purdue’s Entrepreneurial Engineer seminar traveled to Silicon Valley, where they met with alumni and visited startup and venture capital organizations across the Bay Area.

AAAS fellowship is a distinguished lifetime honor that recognizes individuals for scientifically or socially significant achievements in research, teaching, technology, administration or science communication.

AECE Prof. Kaushik Roy uses the brain’s efficiency as inspiration to help autonomous vehicles, such as drones and robots, make crucial, time-sensitive decisions while operating in the field.