Good nutrition is not only essential for healthy development and basic survival, but also integral to well-being and disease prevention. Health conditions linked to poor diet constitute the most frequent and preventable causes of death in the U.S. and are major drivers of healthcare costs, estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. While diet needs to be understood in order to be improved, dietary intake remains difficult to measure.

A paper led by a PhD student in Purdue University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has received an award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).

ECE professor Saurabh Bagchi is heading the organization of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2021 Global Student Challenge Competition.

Machine learning (ML) is all the rage nowadays, with people captivated by its ability to make sense of voluminous amounts of data on its own. But the outputs of ML, and the degree to which it makes sense of data, depend to a large extent on how well we can manage the variety and changing nature of the data itself.

Online courses during pandemic provided wealth of data about how first-year science, engineering students learn; lessons to be used for years to come.

After 30 years of development, a medical device designed to continuously monitor the airways of the tiniest ventilated patients could become the standard of care for babies worldwide.

Virtual labs have been gaining ground in the College of Engineering. By combining mixed reality technologies with physics-based modeling and simulation and authentic machine interfaces, virtual labs are enriching learning. To expand the reach of this innovative instructional approach, the College has launched the Virtual Labs Faculty Fellows program, and has selected and engaged the first cohort of fellows.

Yung-Hsiang Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed several patented technologies and helped his students start their own companies. He is a Purdue Faculty Scholar, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Purdue University researchers received an Amazon Research Award for their development of a method to perform analytics on streaming video running on small devices linked together in the Internet of Things (IoT). This method can perform computationally expensive tasks, such as object detection and face recognition, in real time and provide guarantees about the accuracy.

Purdue ECE student Sarah N. Chowdhury has been awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.