MSE/ECE's Michael J. Manfra will receive the 2021 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award, the most prestigious award given by Purdue University in pure and applied science and engineering.

ECE's Yong Chen will receive the 2021 Herbert Newby McCoy Award, the most prestigious award given by Purdue University for outstanding work in the natural sciences.

Soham Saha has been awarded the 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award for his work on all-optical switching. Saha earned his PhD in Fall 2021 from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the field of nanophotonics.

Powerful partnerships among Purdue’s colleges of engineering, agriculture and science will advance digital forestry tools to save time, money and achieve a deeper understanding of an important natural resource. CE’s Ayman Habib and other research teams within the digital forestry initiative are pursuing remote and automated sensing tools that will allow thousands of forest acres to be measured and assessed in a matter of hours.

Doraiswami Ramkrishna, the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the 2021 recipient of the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature.

The inaugural class of Trailblazers in Engineering Fellows are PhD students or postdocs in engineering or related disciplines at U.S. research universities.

BME’s Fang Huang hopes to break down barriers to allow direct visualization of cellular dynamics and nanoscale architectures in live cells and tissue sections. The NIH awarded Huang a federal grant to support his research focus on ultra-high resolution structural and molecular imaging of cells and tissues.

Purdue University’s economic impact on the state continues to grow. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and state officials joined those from Purdue on Oct. 13 to celebrate the grand opening of Saab’s West Lafayette multimillion-dollar facility. Located in the Discovery Park District adjacent to the Purdue campus, it will support production of the U.S. Air Force's next-generation T-7A jet trainer.

In a new Medium blog, Purdue ECE’s Karthik Ramani investigates how manufacturing has changed, its impact on economies and how it might impact educating and training future generation.

Purdue researchers, including BME’s Maria Dadarlat, were selected as part of the newly created $15 million NSF HDR Institute of Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3). The project will incorporate AI algorithms with new processors such that they can analyze unprecedented data sets.