News

August 21, 2019

How Multidisciplinary Engineering Studies Can Accelerate Your Career

A multidisciplinary engineering degree is a great option for those seeking flexibility and opportunities in multiple fields, even giving you a competitive edge.

July 11, 2019

$275,000 in grants to boost augmented reality platform that helps students learn STEM concepts

A Purdue University-affiliated startup developing a platform using augmented reality to encourage students to learn about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has received grants totaling $275,000. The technology enables children to experience hands-on science through gameplay.

June 20, 2019

2019 ASEE Honors and Stats

The year 2019 will be remembered as a banner year for our school at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Along with three major awards, two best paper finalists, and a distinguished lecture, our community reach has continued to grow through collaborative work with colleagues in many different fields and schools of engineering (and beyond!) around the globe.

May 2, 2019

Graduate Program Celebrates 2019 Student Awards

On April 26, 2019, the School of Engineering Education's Graduate Program celebrated 2019 Student Award Recipients at a reception in Wang Hall. Students were recognized for college and school research, teaching, and service awards as well as external honors. Congratulations to all of our graduate students!

April 16, 2019

Dr. Main Receives Betty Vetter Award

Congratulations to Dr. Joyce Main, recipient of the 2019 Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) Betty Vetter Award for Research presented at the Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference.

April 16, 2019

ENE Welcomes Justin Hess, Assistant Professor (ENE PhD '15)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Justin Hess, will be joining our faculty team this summer as Assistant Professor of Engineering Education.

April 12, 2019

Faculty Promotions

Please join us in celebrating with our newly promoted faculty, as approved by our Board of Trustees today! Dr. Morgan Hynes and Dr. Joyce Main rise to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, and Dr. Ed Berger and Dr. Monica Cardella rise to the rank of Professor.

April 11, 2019

Colquitt and Lyon, 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellows

Engineering Education Graduate Students Donovan Colquitt and Joseph Lyon are recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF).

April 3, 2019

LEGO's Newest Set Lets Kids Build Robots-And Confidence

MEMORIES OF MIDDLE school likely conjure up all sorts of thoughts and emotions. “Productive STEM learning” is probably low on the list. But on Tuesday, Lego is introducing a new coding and robotics set called Spike Prime that it hopes will break through with a notoriously distracted audience.

March 4, 2019

2019 Engineering Education Faculty Awards

The 2019 Engineering Education Faculty Awards were presented at our Spring Industrial Advisory Council Meeting. This year's recipients are Drs. Alice Pawley, Matt Ohland, and Mary Pilotte. Congratulations to each of you!

February 18, 2019

2019 Student Awards of Excellence

On February 12, 2019, the School of Engineering Education Undergraduate Programs of Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and Multidisciplinary Engineering celebrated the 2019 Students Awards of Excellence.

December 20, 2018

Of the Coming of James Holly, Jr., PhD

James Holly, Jr., Ph.D (ENE ’18), is a recent graduate of the School Engineering Education's Graduate Program, earning a PhD in Engineering Education with his dissertation,"Of the Coming of James: A critical Autoethnography on Teaching Engineering to Black Boys as a Black Man."