Purdue researchers, led by ECE Prof. David Ebert, have developed an online platform that enables first responders to monitor emergency situations using tweets and Instagram posts. Called the Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART), the browser-based platform filters social media content according to key words and geographic regions defined by the user.

ECE Prof. Sunil Bhave has received $35,000 in funding from the Trask Innovation Fund to help move his “Wafer Level Vacuum Packaging for Opto-mechanical Devices" through the commercialization pipeline. The technology uses micro-electro-mechanical systems for inertial navigation when conventional GPS signals are not feasible.

Purdue researchers, including ECE professors Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva, have helped design a compact switch that enables light to be more reliably confined to small computer chip components for faster information processing.

A team of Purdue researchers is working to accelerate innovation in the food and agricultural industry through the development and sharing of open-source tools and culture. The co-director of Purdue’s Open Agricultural Technology and Systems (OATS) Center is ECE Prof. James Krogmeier.

A number of ECE graduate students received Purdue College of Engineering awards at a luncheon on April 24, 2018.

Considered one of the “fathers of the Internet,” Robert Kahn is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program. He also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid 1980s which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) announces plans to build a 100,000-square-foot facility for electric power research in the Purdue Discovery Park District designed to support up to 300 new high-tech jobs. In addition, Purdue ECE alumnus Edmund O. Schweitzer III, and his wife, Beatriz Schweitzer, will donate $3-million in funds to support this pipeline of innovation at Purdue.

Purdue researchers collaborated in a Rice University-led study detecting a quantum shift that results from the strong coupling of light and an ultra-high mobility two-dimensional electron gas rotating in opposite directions. Michael Manfra, professor of ECE, MSE, and physics and astronomy, led the Purdue team.

Purdue ECE candidate Anis Elgabli, along with Vaneet Aggarwal, assistant professor of industrial engineering, won the Best Paper Award of the 10th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Mobile and Online Social Networking (HotPOST 2018).

MR-Link LLC of West Lafayette has secured the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant of $228,325 from the National Institutes of Health to develop an affordable device to allow more efficient MRI scans. ECE Prof. Zhongming Liu and grad student Nishant Babaria are two of the company's founders.