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It is our great pleasure to present this year's recipients of the Engineering Education Outstanding Alumni Award, Judith Cleland, Pedro Pires de Miranda, Jennifer Kerr and Arnold Young, all graduates of the former Division of Interdisciplinary Engineering (now part of the School of Engineering Education). At our event held last week, we also celebrated our top junior and senior students for their academic achievements and service.

Dimitrios Michalaros, a First-Year Engineering student, has had one lingering project incomplete from his high school days in Greece. That is, until today. He and three classmates entered a competition their senior year to design an artificial gravity Nanolab.

IN THE NEWS | Michele Yatchmeneff (ENE PhD '15), University of Alaska-Anchorage Assistant Professor, is CoPI for SIGP that supports Native American scholars pursuing STEM grad education -the same program that she once participated in and inspired her to continue her own education.

This week we celebrate First Generation College Awareness with a twist! We asked our First-Year Engineering students, "Are you a 1st Gen Engineer?"

Devin Becktell, ’19 MDE General Engineering, stopped by the Nest while he was on campus recruiting for John Deere at Industrial Roundtable.

This year’s Purdue University Engineering Gift Guide’s list of toys and games offers an opportunity for learning where kids simply see entertainment.

Purdue University's Family Weekend 2019 commences tomorrow! First-Year Engineering will participate as part of the College of Engineering's activities in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Saturday, October 26, 2019, 10 AM - Noon.

The 2019 IEEE Frontiers of Education Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio is underway. Many of our faculty, graduate students, and PhD alumni will be participating and/or presenting their research and representing twenty different categories related to engineering education.

How does an engineering school dedicated to the future celebrate its past? That's a question with many answers, and some of them are personified in the story of one engineer. David Schwind, a distinguished Purdue alumnus and pioneer in acoustics, will be coming back to the University he loves on September 20 to combine recollection and inspiration for a day of important anniversaries.

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

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.

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!

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.

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