Monica Cardella and Elizabeth Gajdzik, leaders of Purdue’s INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering, received positive media coverage leading up to the 2018 holiday season.
Understanding a person's attitude toward a bot — a car, factory robot or virtual assistant — is key to improving cooperation between human and machine. It allows a machine to "self-correct" if it's out of sync with the person using it, Neera Jain, a Purdue engineering professor involved with the research, tells Axios.
When an HIV outbreak hit Indiana’s rural Scott County in 2015, the sparsely staffed health department was stretched to confirm cases among an entire community with lab tests that aren’t portable and could take weeks to return results.
The United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A new chemical conversion process could transform the world’s polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into useful products, such as clean fuels and other items.
The College of Engineering is actively seeking the very best candidates from around the world to fill 28 faculty positions, including several data science positions.