Jason Morphew, assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education, and Sivaranjani Seetharaman, assistant professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.

Jason Morphew, assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education, and Sivaranjani Seetharaman, assistant professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, have been selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

The annual event, to be held Sept. 14–17 in Philadelphia will gather 100 of the nation’s most promising early-career engineers for a two-and-a-half-day program aimed at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and advancing innovation. The University of Pennsylvania will serve as host for this year’s symposium.

Participants will engage in discussions across four leading-edge areas of engineering: advances in neural engineering; next-generation computing and quantum computing; fusion energy; and sustainable aerial mobility.

Selection to the symposium is highly competitive, with invitations extended through a rigorous nomination and review process. The program is designed to encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue and promote the transfer of new methods and insights across engineering fields, helping to sustain the nation’s technological leadership.

Morphew and Seetharaman join a distinguished list of Purdue Engineering faculty who have been invited to the symposium in past years, including David Johnson and Tim Rogers (2024), Marcial Gonzalez (2023 EU-US), Christopher Brinton (2023), Brandon Pitts (2023), Rahim Rahimi (2022), Michael Sealy and Shweta Singh (2021), Dana Weinstein (2020), Dimitrios Peroulis (2017), Peter Bermel (2015), Alexandra Boltasseva (2012), and Dan Jiao (2011).

For more information on the symposium, visit their website.