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Zubin Jacob, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of the 2017 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award.

Purdue University achieved another record year of sponsored research funding, reaching $418.3 million in fiscal year 2017, topping the previous year’s record of $403 million.

Four students from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have taken on the challenge of trying to save lives in Ecuador and other countries.

By 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning September 12, booths and banners had sprouted all across Purdue’s Memorial Mall, awaiting the arrival of throngs of eager students. Behind the table stood representatives from 336 companies looking for the “best and brightest,” as one Ford Motor Company recruiter put it.

Drs. Audeen Fentiman, Robin Adams, and Karl Smith recently received an NSF EAGER grant for the project, “Impact of the emerging engineering education research and innovation community.”

A consortium of experts is working to modernize a process that is used in making a wide range of products, from freeze-dried space foods to lifesaving wonder drugs.

Alexander Hagen has been awarded a prize in the Competition for Students at Universities with Less than $600 Million in 2015 R&D Expenditures and Amanda Loveless was recently announced as a recipient of a Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) graduate scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year.

The NSF I-Corps program selected IE doctoral student Ting Zhang to join other innovative student researchers in one of its fall 2017 cohorts.

Ashwin Nair, a graduate IE student and PRISM Center Researcher in agricultural robotics, interned this summer at the Agricultural Robotics Lab (ARL) at the Volcani Institute in Israel.