A Purdue ECE alumnus now is using technology his team created to improve school safety to help fight the spread of COVID-19.

More than one-third of the people in the United States who have epilepsy are at risk for a deadly complication called “sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.” That means 1.2 million people are at risk for the complication each year – and it will kill about 4,000 of them. They typically have refractory epilepsy, which means medicines do not bring their seizures under control.

Jay Akridge, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity, has announced Purdue's Morrill Award winners for 2020.

Researchers running demanding computations, especially for projects like infectious disease modeling that need to be re-run frequently as new data becomes available, rely on supercomputers to run efficiently with as few failures of the software as possible. The more jobs that fail, the less science can get done.

A team of computer researchers from Purdue University has created a system, called SOPHIA, designed to help users reconfigure databases for optimal performance with time-varying workloads and for diverse applications ranging from metagenomics to high-performance computing (HPC) to IoT, where high-throughput, resilient databases are critical.

Research into quantum techniques to more quickly detect explosives and exotic types of quantum camouflage have received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2020 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. The four faculty members who have been awarded projects in the competitive funding program are members of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute in Purdue's Discovery Park.

Repetitive hits to the head can cause brain damage without actually leading to a concussion, past studies have suggested. Just a simple change to the starting stance of players on the offensive line in American football might reduce this burden, a study conducted by Purdue University and Stanford University researchers now shows.

Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is accepting applications through July 31, 2020 for its online MSECE and Project-track master’s degree programs that begin in Fall 2020. Both options result in the same degree earned by students on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, with the same courses taught by the same faculty.

A Purdue ECE alumnus has been selected to receive the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2019 in recognition research done as a PhD student at Purdue. Ahmedullah Aziz received his PhD ECE in 2019. His dissertation was entitled “Device-Circuit Co-design Employing Phase Transition Materials for Low Power Electronics.”

Eight ECE graduate students were recipients of the 2020 Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award - Md Faizul Bari, Stanley Richard Doerger, Tulasi R. Haritsa, Guan Zhe Hong, Mingxuan He, Somosmita Mitra, Amritha Prasad, and Steve Rausch. The honor recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in memory of Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon who influenced the lives of many engineering educators early in their careers through this award.