A Purdue ECE professor has been named a University Faculty Scholar (UFS). Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu is among six faculty members university-wide to be recognized for their outstanding performance.

Santokh S. Badesha, Adjunct Professor for Innovation for Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named an Honorary Member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). This is the highest honor awarded by the society to one person each year.

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.

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.

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.

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.