Ten intercollegiate student athletes in the College of Engineering were among 1,016 from all 14 Big Ten institutions to receive the 2016-17 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award for excellent academic performance. Qualifying students earned at least a 3.7 GPA during the 2016-17 academic year. A total of 54 Purdue athletes received the award.

Mark Lundstrom, the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2018 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. The presentation is scheduled for the IEEE Electron Devices Meeting, Dec. 4-6, 2017 in San Francisco.

Discovery Park has announced that effective this month, Dan DeLaurentis, professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and director of the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace, will serve as the inaugural director for the Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation (i-GSDI). DeLaurentis has served as the interim director of the institute since its launch in December.

A Purdue University-led program training students on producing sustainable food and electricity for populations through solar energy received a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Award.

It's five months until Christmas and Purdue's INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering is trying to make shopping a little easier for parents.

New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and the public.

A new technique that uses the artificial intelligence methods of machine learning and deep learning is able to create 3-D shapes from 2-D images, such as photographs, and is even able to create new, never-before-seen shapes.

Dr. Beth Holloway, assistant dean of engineering for undergraduate education and director of the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP), was interviewed by Compass magazine.

Ask anyone who's ever had a lumbar puncture or epidural: having a needle inserted into your spine is not the most pleasant experience. And it's no easier for the doctors who perform the procedure, who are largely working by feel.