Approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population has some type of disability — comprising the largest minority in the nation, spanning all races and ethnicities, socioeconomic groups, and genders. Yet each of these individuals can contribute to society if given the right tools, training and opportunities. That’s where assistive technology, or AT, comes in, says Purdue IE’s Brad Duerstock.

Cognitive decline is a major and growing public health issue. BME’s Anne Sereno is researching how a working memory for a particular sensory input or object — like the shape of a car, or its location in a parking lot — is encoded and represented in the brain.

Five students selected as 2021-2022 Purdue Engineering Fellows were announced during a ceremony on Sept. 13 in Fowler Hall. A reception followed in the Loeb Playhouse lobby. This is the third year for the program.

The sea slug has taught neuroscientists the intelligence features that any creature in the animal kingdom needs to survive. Now, the sea slug is teaching artificial intelligence how to use those strategies, according to new Purdue MSE/ECE study that has found a material that can mimic the sea slug’s most essential intelligence features.

Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) undergraduate program has earned the No. 1 ranking in its category in the annual U.S. News & World Report undergraduate program rankings for the 11th consecutive year.

The College of Engineering recognized 54 staff members from 12 units who were awarded with University Bravo Awards this summer.

The 100,000 Strong in the Americas (100K) Innovation Fund at Partners of the Americas and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State selected the Universidad Aeronáutica en Querétaro (UNAQ) and Purdue University to receive an Innovation Fund award in the 2020 Mexico-U.S. Innovation Fund Competition.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Purdue among the top 10 Most Innovative Schools in the nation for the fourth consecutive year. Purdue Engineering is 10th overall in the ranking, and 11 of its specialty areas are ranked: agricultural and biological engineering is 1st for the 11th year in a row; industrial/manufacturing remains second; aeronautical and astronautical is fourth; civil, sixth; mechanical, eighth; computer, electrical and environmental, each 11th; materials, 12th; chemical, 14th; and biomedical, 23rd.

Purdue Engineering Graduate Programs is hosting the Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase, a premier graduate recruitment event, Oct. 3 and 4. Fully online, this event includes informational workshops, program-specific sessions, research highlights, virtual lab tours, a poster session with cash prizes, and more.

Chi Hwan Lee’s research focuses on converting items like contact lenses and prosthetic hands into smart devices with specially designed electronic stickers to measure vision loss or simulate the sense of feeling.