Innovation Partners Institute (IPI) at the Purdue Research Foundation together with the City of West Lafayette, the Indiana 5G Zone and US Ignite announced the West Lafayette (WL) Smart City Challenge. This competition expects to tap into innovative solutions that improve public safety at Discovery Park.

Barrett Caldwell, professor in Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering, will be the school's acting head from Jan. 1 through May 31, 2022.

A newly published article in Nature Computational Science by Purdue Chemical Engineering researchers presents a breakthrough in a Purdue-led Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) project.

After an international search, Young-Jun Son has been named the next James J. Solberg Head of the School of Industrial Engineering.

Transitioning to clean wind energy could become more cost-efficient as Purdue researchers test a new technology created by an international startup to anchor offshore wind turbines. Research on the anchors will be led by CE's Jan Olek and Pablo D. Zavattieri and MSE's Jeffrey P. Youngblood.

One of AIChE’s Board of Directors’ Awards, The Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, is presented to engineers who have had a profound impact on the way chemical engineering is applied, and whose achievements have advanced the profession in any of its aspects. 

Ahmed Hassanein, the Paul L. Wattelet Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and director of the Center for Materials Under eXtreme Environment (CMUXE), was the recipient of two prestigious international awards in recognition of his research and leadership in the areas of fusion science and engineering.

AAE’s Daniel DeLaurentis and Cesare Guariniello are developing System-of-Systems (SoS) tools that address high-level, hierarchical features of complex space systems, such as multiple stakeholders, uncertain objectives, developmental/operational risks, and flexibility of space mission architectures.

Using an alternative cooling method, ME's Issam Mudawar designed a charging cable that can deliver a current 4.6 times that of the fastest available EV chargers on the market today by removing up to 24.22 kilowatts of heat.

The Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (known as I-GUIDE), based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will help researchers better estimate and predict risk and anticipate impacts from natural disasters or climate change.