Happy 120th Anniversary

As our ‘Sounds like the Future’ podcast series states, we are celebrating 120 years of Purdue Engineering! We are all proud of the numerous high-impact moments our School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has had during this time. But today I would like to share our top-five highlights from this year that I believe will help define the future for our School:

  • Research Pre-eminence: Thanks to Bill Elmore’s generosity, we launched the Elmore ECE Emerging Frontiers Centers to enable critical collaborations among ECE faculty and beyond. Our goal is to keep fostering a ‘first-best-only’ research culture that will further enhance Purdue ECE’s leadership position in several key areas.
  • Student support: We established new full-support fellowships to recruit the top student talent to Purdue. The CoE Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship is the latest one. Overall, in just one year, we doubled the number of fellowship offers to incoming ECE students! Furthermore, we quadrupled the ECE-provided support to undergraduate student clubs on campus!
  • Online program: Our first cohort for our affordable online MS program started on January 13, 2020! Students in our 100% online programs learn from the same world-class faculty through the same rigorous courses and earn the same degree as our on-campus students at a price of $22,500. In addition, we launched our first MicroMasters program in Nano-Science and Technology. Additional ECE Micro-credentials are planned for 2020.
  • Rankings: Our College’s online graduate engineering programs were ranked 3rd, up two spots, in the U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of Best Online Programs. In addition, our Electrical Engineering online program was ranked 2nd! While we are excited about these results and we will keep paying attention to the rankings, we will pay even more attention to continuously improve our online programs and learning approaches.
  • Space for Student Success: Thanks to generous donations by Max and Maileen Brown and Bill and Shirley Rice, we were able to give two new collaborative-learning spaces to our students in the MSEE building. These spaces promote open and efficient team-based work and inspire our students to build the future!

Boiler Up and Hail Purdue!

Dimitrios Peroulis
Michael and Katherine Birck Head and Reilly Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University