Purdue’s electrical engineering graduate program moved up three spots – from 12 to 9 – in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Computer engineering held steady at 12 in the new rankings, which were released on March 17th. Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 7th nationally among doctoral-granting universities, up from 8th last year.

Two Purdue researchers have been selected as Quantum Information Science and Engineering Network (QISE-NET) Triplet Awardees. The “triplets” – a combination of a university principal investigator, an industrial or national laboratory mentor, and a graduate student – come from a variety of disciplines relevant to advancing the development of quantum technologies such as materials science, chemistry, device engineering, physics, computer science and industrial research.

A Purdue ECE and CS team comprising faculty members Saurabh Bagchi and He Wang, working with AT&T Labs Research, has won the best paper award at the recently concluded 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) at Lyon, France. The paper shows how to perform efficient mobile crowdsensing using smartphones and reports on a study done on Purdue campus with 50 Purdue students collaboratively creating a barometric pressure map of the campus.

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels announced Wednesday (March 11) the creation of the Purdue For Life foundation, an organization designed to deepen ties to alumni and to drive and coordinate all alumni-facing activities for the university.

A team of Purdue ECE-affiliated researchers have won the Best Paper Award of the 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI). The first author on the paper, entitled “Autonomous Power Dispatch for a Deep Space Vehicle Power System,” is ECE grad student Pallavi Madhav Kulkarni. Co-authors are Prof. Dionysios Aliprantis, and ECE alumni Benjamin Loop and Ning Wu.

The global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to warrant the attention of each and every one of us as we work together to keep our students, staff, and faculty safe and healthy. While we have no cases of COVID-19 on our campus, there are confirmed cases in Indiana. We continue to make decisions in our precaution-containment-continuity framework, with our overarching focus on health and safety – especially for those in high risk categories. Ensuring health and safety now means taking actions that aim to limit exposure of Purdue community members to the virus, imposing social distancing where appropriate, and generally elevating preventive hygiene practices across the campus.

A proposal from Shreyas Sen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will allow further exploration of the using the human body as a wire for healthcare. The research will be funded through a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Similarly to how bats use echolocation to orient themselves with their surroundings, mathematicians have found that the same can be done with microphones and a speaker on a drone with the help of algebra and geometry.

Quantum has moved beyond science and technology into our culture. This seemingly incomprehensible field might, in fact, be a straightforward way of understanding and explaining the world, with profound applicability across everything in society and our lives. An emerging “Quantum Society” is taking shape, synthesizing science, technology, work, art, artificial intelligence and cognition into a richer, more fluid understanding of life.

Purdue Engineering’s Leah Jamieson will receive the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the group for achievement in education.