Purdue University electrical and computer engineering professor Gerhard Klimeck, whose work is opening research avenues for scientists the world over, will be presented Thursday (June 27) with the prestigious Humboldt Research Award at Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany. Attending the ceremonies will be Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Beth M. Holloway is among eight new officers to be elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Urinary tract infections are the second most common type of infection in children, with ear infections taking first place.

Purdue Engineering’s $54M Flex Lab held an open house on June 10 to welcome the newest groups working at the facility. Dean Mung Chiang, the John A. Edwardson dean of the College of Engineering, and David Kish, lab director, conducted self-tours to observe all of the progress made with filling labs and offices since the facility opened in late 2017.

The World Health Organization warns that antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest global threats and predicts that worldwide death rates from this threat could skyrocket past 10 million a year by 2050, becoming more deadly than cancer, which kills 8.2 million people worldwide each year.

The Purdue School of Materials Engineering will offer an online Additive Manufacturing (AM) Certification Program beginning July 24th. Register at Online Additive Manufacturing Certification.

Shortly after the start of the new year, Americans around the nation will start returning to polling stations to vote in presidential primaries. How confident they feel in the voting process could depend on this thing called secure multiparty computation.

One of Purdue’s largest complexes on campus, a new 250,000-square-foot grand entrance, will bear the name of one of the College of Engineering’s most supportive alumni. Thanks to a significant gift from the Dudley Family Foundation, the first building in the new Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex will be named Dudley Hall.

Purdue University and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) jointly announced plans Friday (June 14) to establish a Center for Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem aimed at ensuring a secure supply of semiconductor chips and related tools all the way from the foundry to the packaged system.

The mantis shrimp, one of the ocean’s most ornery creatures, can take on attacks from its own species without getting injured. Its strategy could solve a big manufacturing problem: Creating lighter materials that absorb a lot of energy from a sharp impact within a limited amount of space.