The Purdue University Board of Trustees ratified Professor Tamara Moore's appointment as the new Purdue ENE Crowley Family Professor of Engineering Education, succeeding Audeen Fentiman in that role. Moore joined the faculty in 2013, and serves as executive co-director of Purdue’s INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering, director of SCALE K-12, and the curriculum director for SCALE.

Professor and Interim Head Joyce Main will lead Purdue ENE as the Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education, building on its pioneering legacy and advancing the future of the field. Her vision centers on celebrating its people, strengthening research and innovative teaching, and launching new ABET-accredited Multidisciplinary Engineering and liberal arts pathways.

The holiday giving season is fast approaching, and Purdue ENE's INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering has again come up with the toys and tools in its 2025 Engineering Gift Guide that are sure to spark your child's curiosity and learning in microelectronics.

Audeen Fentiman, Purdue’s Crowley Family Professor Emerita, retired in August 2025 after 50+ years shaping engineering education. From a rural West Virginia high school to university leadership, she’s combined curiosity and passion to transform how engineers learn and lead. Here, she shares her story.

ENE Alumna Jeremi London answers questions about her experience at Purdue as well as her role as a consultant on the curriculum team for an animated PBS KIDS show aimed at strengthening a younger audience’s understanding of Earth science and meteorology.

Jennifer DeBoer and Kirsten Davis' NSF-funded six-week summer research program in Kenya attracted a Purdue construction engineering student who was able to connect with relatives there while supporting the Tumaini Innovation Center's teachers in improving their vocational school.

ENE's Kirsten Davis has received the 2025 Outstanding Experiential Education Research Award from SEE, recognizing her impactful research in advancing hands-on learning.

A research team led by ENE's Greg Strimel along with Tamara Moore, Morgan Hynes, and S. Selcen Guzey are continuing SCALE K-12 efforts to bring advanced knowledge of microelectronics into classrooms and inspire the next generation of STEM professionals. Over the next five years, the team will recruit and prepare 15 practicing teachers as Microelectronics Master Teacher Fellows to serve high-need districts.

The three-year project led by Sally Bane along with Jun Chen and ENE's Sean Brophy will up the learning factor in large labs by blending physical and virtual experiments with AI-driven feedback tools. More than 1,500 students will get the opportunity to experiment, design, and problem-solve in new ways.

Meet MDE's Megan Wentz, one of seven engineering students in this year's Purdue Engineering Fellows cohort. Fellows were honored by the College of Engineering at a September 16th ceremony for their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, positive relationships with peers and contributions to the Purdue Engineering community.

ENE's Tamara Moore and Greg Strimel over at Purdue’s SCALE K-12 program will continue to prepare America’s youth for careers in emerging technologies thanks to a new partnership with high-performing compute platform Arm to launch the Arm EducateAI Coalition.

An update on leadership and organizational strategy from the National Institute for Engineering Ethics, a group administered by Purdue ENE and focused on advancing the understanding and practice of ethics within the engineering profession.

ENE's Kirsten Davis and her husband, ECE's James Davis, have been awarded $350K in NSF funds to lead an innovative study on how software engineers can be better prepared for the age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

ENE Assistant Professor Jason Morphew is one of two Purdue faculty selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The annual event gathers 100 of the nation’s most promising early-career engineers to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and advance innovation.

Authored by ENE’s Stephanie Masta, Alice Pawley, Matt Ohland and colleagues, the paper “Is Carla grumpy? Analysis of peer evaluations to explore microaggressions and other marginalizing behaviors in engineering student teams" brings home the prestigious ASEE William Elgin Wickenden Award.