A stolen passport and an extended stay in an unfamiliar country set the stage for an unforgettable but valuable experience for Purdue AAE student Roy Ramirez.

Every year, we celebrate our world-renowned faculty members whose international and national awards and honors inspire us to keep aiming higher. See all the Purdue engineers who received external awards and recognition during the 2020 fiscal year.

The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines compares to landing the first humans on the moon, Neera Jain states in a Forbes opinion piece published Dec. 28, 2020.

Meet 2020's "Most Impactful Inventors" in the College of Engineering. Read about all the faculty inventors and their inventions from fiscal year 2020.

Mung Chiang, the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, who returned to Purdue on Dec. 16 after a 12-month assignment at the U.S. Department of State, has been elected one of seven international fellows of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2020.

How can you improve the cutting of “gummy” metals? Purdue University engineers have found that a one molecule layer of the right materials is enough to make a machinist's job easier.

IE's Vaneet Aggarwal developed a solution to help cut down loading wait times and provide more efficient data storage options for corporations of all sizes.

ECE's Y.H. Lu and his team of innovators have created several patented technologies that they combined into a computer system to acquire and analyze real-time visual data from millions of globally distributed network cameras.

How do we control a cell to harness its full therapeutic and medical potential? The answer lies where engineering and biology meet.

Is it possible to read a person’s mind by analyzing the electric signals from the brain? The answer may be much more complex than most people think, according to ECE's Jeffrey Mark Siskind.