Purdue University professors are questioning what else fertile farmland can be used for with a new multidisciplinary project researching how to improve future sustainability by simultaneously using crop fields for solar electricity production.

The same technology used in jets soon may be powering personal cars and other automobiles.

Purdue Engineering rolled out a multifaceted initiative called G.R.I.T.+ at the Welcome Picnic for Engineering Friday, August 16, 2-3:30 PM.

Purdue’s College of Engineering has announced the 10 inaugural recipients of its new Professional Renewal in Maximizing Excellence (PRIME) grant program. The grants support College of Engineering staff members who wish to pursue professional development activities that will contribute to achieving career goals.

Vilas Pol, associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named the 2019 winner of the Program Committee’s Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering. The award is presented by the Innovations of Green Process Engineering for Sustainable Energy and Environment by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Computational scientists have long relied on high-precision arithmetic to accurately solve a wide range of problems, from modeling nuclear reactors to predicting supernova physics to measuring the forces within an atomic nucleus. However, changes to hardware, spurred by the demand for more computing capability and growth in machine learning, have us rethinking the balance between the number of digits needed to perform a given calculation and computational efficiency.

Researchers from Purdue University, Prof. Saurabh Bagchi, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. Ignacio Laguna, have taken an essential step toward enabling mixed precision calculations on GPUs through novel automatic tuning methods that can be applied to real-world CUDA programs. For portions of a calculation that do not require full 64-bit double-precision arithmetic, lower precision alternatives may provide enough accuracy. The tradeoff could enable us to solve complex problems faster and at lower energy budgets, thus enabling scientific discoveries that would otherwise remain hidden away from us.

Tammy Waller thought she was one of the lucky ones after her home in Magalia survived California's most destructive wildfire ever, but her community remains a ghostly skeleton of its former self.

Hazmat crews are still clearing properties, and giant dump trucks haul away toxic debris. Signs on the water fountains in the town hall say, "Don't drink."

Waller remembers the day she came back home after the Camp Fire.

Joint call to action by industry, academia, and government leaders moves Purdue to the forefront of driving the cislunar economy for the next 50 years and beyond

Working engineers and executives interested in expanding their skills to include the rapidly growing area of additive manufacturing (AM) can earn two non-credit online certificates through Purdue Online - College of Engineering.

The 2012-2019 Ever True campaign at Purdue University that concluded June 30 raised more than $2.5 billion for the University, exceeding the target of $2.019 billion.