Understanding why some supercomputer jobs fail and what can be done to make them more reliable is the focus of a recent project led by Saurabh Bagchi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) senior research scientist Carol Song. The project was supported by three awards from the National Science Foundation.

An ABE/ECE team created new technology called SOPHIA to help users reconfigure databases for optimal performance with time-varying workloads and for diverse applications ranging from metagenomics to high-performance computing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can require software running on thousands of computers. That could be the energy that three nuclear plants produce in one hour. A team of materials engineers has created hardware that can learn skills using a type of AI that currently runs on software platforms, offsetting the amount of energy required.

New environmentally friendly technologies promise to be “game changers” in this field and enable the U.S. to create a more stable and reliable domestic source of rare earth metals, essential to electronics production. Chemical Engineering’s Linda Wang has developed a technology that extracts these metals in a more environmentally-friendly way.

Supriyo Datta, the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a 2020 Morrill Award winner. The Morrill Award was initiated in 2012 and is the highest honor that Purdue confers on a member of its faculty.

Purdue University’s 2020 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference, formerly known as the Purdue Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium (URPS) is the largest annual showcase of undergraduate research across all disciplines. This event highlights the scholarly work and creative endeavors undergraduate students have been engaged in through oral or poster presentations and awards top students with both financial and non-financial awards.

Two Engineering students and one Engineering alumna received grant offers from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for 2020-21. They are among nine Purdue University students and alumni to receive offers this year.

D’Aloia, a native of Centerville, Ohio, who is to receive a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering, will be the student responder in the Division VI ceremony. He is one of five graduating seniors to earn the inaugural 2020 Purdue Engineering Fellowship.

Shirley Dyke envisions safe lunar habitation in the next decade, helping further space habitation. She focuses on understanding what characteristics make habitats safe through cyber physical testing, which combines computer models with physical test specimens.

A new 3D imaging tool tool could allow for better understanding for diseases affecting the brain and regenerative therapies.