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Growing Faculty

Faculty excellence is the foundation of Purdue ECE’s success. Whether they are mentoring students, inspiring students in classes, leading research centers, collaborating with industry, or creating startups with their innovations, our faculty have a major impact on the world.

The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering currently has 120 faculty, which is among the largest ECE faculty in the nation. Our faculty strive to be the first, best, and only in everything they do. Six of our faculty members are National Academy of Inventors Fellows. Forty are IEEE Fellows. Six are National Academy of Engineering Fellows, and Purdue ECE also has a Gordon Award Winner on faculty. 

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Leading Research

Purdue ECE faculty lead many of the University’s leading research centers and initiatives. From programming languages to AI to autonomous systems, microelectronics, and much more, Purdue ECE is collaborating with partners in academia and industry to come up with innovative solutions to the world’s grand challenges.

Center for Programming Principles and Software

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Alumnus makes gift to ECE

Alumnus William B. Elmore was honored in two events on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus for his $25-million gift to name the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. To maximize the impact of the gift, the School will distribute funds to address both short- and long-term needs and opportunities including the initiation of research and education centers alongside retention and recruitment support for faculty and students. Elmore was recognized at a luncheon sponsored by the School and at the 2021 Engineering Alumni Association Awards.

Dimitrios Peroulis, Michael and Katherine Birck Head and Reilly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, says the impact of the gift will be transformational for Purdue ECE. “The funds will help with, among other things, the initiation of research and education centers, recruitment and retention efforts for faculty and students, and the creation of a new minor in artificial intelligence/machine learning” he said.

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PIECE: Project for Inclusion in ECE

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as a discipline struggles to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities. Diversity and inclusion in ECE is a complex problem with many contributing factors, and the solutions are not often straightforward. To address this issue, Purdue ECE launched PIECE: Project for Inclusion in ECE.

PIECE evolved from a study group that was funded by NSF grant #1636446: Understanding the Professional Formation of Engineers through the Lens of Design Thinking: Unpacking the Problem of Diversity and Inclusion. The grant was part of the NSF’s Research in the Formation of Engineers program.

This project acknowledges three interrelated problems currently recognized in the professional formation of engineers: the gap between school experiences and practice, the perception of engineering as solely technical, and the lack of diversity and inclusion in engineering. The ECE DEI Committee is approaching these not as separate problems, but as issues that are linked and deeply connected to engineering culture, curriculum and practice, and require a processual, contextual and integrative approach to solve.

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Growth of Project Track & Online MS

Purdue ECE has been developing ways for students to earn an MSECE in nontraditional ways. The online MSECE and the Project-Track Masters are two programs that do just that.

Online Track Master’s

The online affordable MSECE ‘degree-at-scale’ was launched in January 2020. It offers the same degree with the same courses and the same instructors as the on-campus one but at a fraction of the price. Each plan of study can be customized to include a number of unique one-credit-hour courses that help students gain the desired specialization within their chosen technical field and get the appropriate breadth in others. The online MSECE tops the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Online Programs for electrical engineering.

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