From the Dean

Having the privilege to work for a College whose vision is to make our impact known to the world, I am always thrilled and inspired when our students, faculty, and alumni/ae bring that vision to fruition in remarkable ways. And given the extraordinary regularity of such accomplishments, I find it easy to sustain a high level of inspiration!

In this edition of Engineering Impact Online, we share the story of three alums of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics who are making an exceptional impact with NASA’s Orion spacecraft project. Their success in highly challenging work is setting the trajectory for a human mission to Mars.

I am also inspired by the work of three female faculty entrepreneurs whose startups are championing technologies that include help for Parkinson’s patients and new possibilities for 3D cell culturing and medical implants through the use of a self-assembling collagen that mimics human tissue. For these talented and ambitious researchers, this is only the beginning.

We also are featuring the unique research of faculty in our School of Engineering Education. As the first school of its kind, it continues to chart territory into what will become best practices for educating future generations of elementary, middle, and high school students about what engineering is, why it's needed to solve many of the world’s critical problems, and how they can imagine using engineering to enrich their own lives and the lives of others.

In closing, I hope you’ll be inspired to be part of Purdue’s $2.019 billion “Ever True” campaign, launched by President Daniels on Oct. 9.   

Leah H. Jamieson
The John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering