Brad Duerstock, a professor of practice in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering, leverages his own experiences as a wheelchair user in his research on improving accessibility to transportation.

Andrew J. Whelton, professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, helps guide communities on how to rapidly find contamination, communicate warnings and inform strategies for returning damaged systems to safe use.

Srinivasan Chandrasekar, professor of industrial engineering, loves a mystery. He sat down with Purdue Engineering Review for a chat.

Researchers at Purdue University have discovered new waves with picometer-scale spatial variations of electromagnetic fields which can propagate in semiconductors like silicon.

Alina Alexeenko, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and chemical engineering, uses her expertise in nanoscale sensors and computational fluid dynamics to study and improve rocket engines, space station systems and methods and machines to freeze-dry food and pharmaceuticals.

Purdue undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff attended the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention in early November.

Carol Handwerker, the Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, has tested and researched materials for almost 30 years to determine the best options for solder that connects electronic components to circuit boards, focusing on almost any physical condition that a circuit board could encounter.

In a recent Forbes articles, President-elect Mung Chiang outlined challenges discussed at Purdue’s first Semiconductor Degrees Leadership Board meeting.

Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is developing the testing method using research by Sulma Mohammed, professor of comparative pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras will soon launch a dual-degree master’s program in semiconductors as part of a newly signed agreement to cooperate in education and research in semiconductors and microelectronics.