The course, offered to high school students through Purdue's Gifted Education Resource Institute, teaches engineering design through the creation of wacky, Rube Goldberg–style machines—in this case, a device for watering a cactus in Arizona and another for creating a music video featuring the theme song to The Big Bang Theory.

On the advising staff since 2009, Timmerman has advised and mentored engineering students including S-STEM Scholars and Twenty-First Century Scholars and is this year's recipient of ENE's McDowell Award for excellence in advising.

The Clifton L. Lovell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Education, Wankat (who just marked his 40th year on Purdue's faculty) was recognized for the paper "The Role of Chemical Engineering in Engineering Education Research."

Oakes and Reed-Rhoads will be formally recognized for their outstanding contributions to engineering education at the American Society for Engineering Education's June 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition.

ENE's Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education, and interim head since July 2009, Radcliffe assumes the permanent role as Kamyar Haghighi Head of Engineering Education effective May 1.

The named headship, honoring the School of Engineering Education's founding head, is made possible by a $2 million gift from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation.

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society, serves professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic, and computing fields and related areas.

A public seminar introducing Dr. Sorby will be held at 3:45 p.m., Feb. 8, at Armstrong Hall, B061.

The prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers was presented to Cox during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on January 13.

Holloway received the New Employee award at the College's November 6 Staff Awards banquet, in recognition of his contributions to ENE's Ideas to Innovation Learning Laboratory for first-year students.

Cox will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to young researchers, in a ceremony at the White House this fall. More

Wigley, an acoustical engineering major in the Multidisciplinary Engineering program, received the award at the College of Engineering Honors Reception on April 19.

Doctoral candidate Dalrymple received the award at the College of Engineering Honors Reception on April 19. More

The American Society for Engineering Education will honor Haghighi in June with the 2009 Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education.

Magana, with ENE faculty member Sean Brophy and Purdue education faculty member Timothy Newby, received one of six such awards at the 2009 conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education for the paper "Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Web-Based Interactive Media: Three Different Tools, One Learning Goal."