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2018: Year in Review

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January

New SRC-DARPA center on AI tackles brain-inspired computing

Two men working on an Engine

Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series Begins

Mars looking landscape with Satelites

Purdue Engineering online master's program ranked top 5 in US

February

Illustration of DNA Walkers

Meet Civil Engineering student Dominique Oden, Purdue Women's Basketball Star

ECE alum and BME faculty David Wolf appointed to National Space Council

United States Navy Seal

ECE team wins $750K advances in DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge 2

March

104th Purdue Road School, Keynote by Jennifer Rumsey, ME alumna and Cummins CTO

7th best graduate engineering

Purdue Engineering's Graduate Programs rank 7th in the U.S.

student team

Purdue Engineering team works 30 hours straight to construct an elbow brace for Isaac Haas

April

Mung shakes hands with IE alum Rick Echevarria

Purdue and Intel broaden collaboration with an online cybersecurity badge

Paige Rudin

Engineering junior Rudin named a Truman Scholar

thompsons

Alumni Don and Liz Thompson gift to Minority Engineering on Purdue Day of Giving

May

Keith Krach being given an honorary doctorate

Entrepreneur Keith Krach receives honorary IE doctorate

group of engineering students walking at commencement

1900+ Boilermaker Engineers graduated in May 2018

Keating Showroom

Keating Supercars comes to Purdue

June

Students in front of their plane

Strategic plan announced: Pinnacle of Excellence at Scale

Lillian Gilbreth

Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellows inaugural class launched

Illustration of device on pregnant woman

BME Professor Goergen's device to enable pregnant women to detect health complications

July

Phd student with tweezers

Record year for Engineering research: $182.5M in awards received

Dean Mung Chiang with students and Boiler Pete

Purdue Engineering's best fundraising year

Graphic of World's fastest man-made spinning nanoparticle

World's fastest man-made spinning nanoparticle

August

USAID announcement event

USAID selects Purdue-lead LASER PULSE consortium for global challenges

Purdue Racing Teams

Purdue racing teams' commitment, hard work pay off

orbit illustrations

Howell's research on space featured in media

September

Officials from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation break ground

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories breaks ground and kicks off Purdue 150th

One Course Higher launched on sesquicentennial for alumni lifelong learning

51cent penny press coin slots

EPICS students create 150th anniversary themed penny press

October

A mock-up of the building expansion

Purdue Engineering Space Master Plan 2017-2027 unveiled

Silicon Valley Roadshow startups with Dean Chiang, College of Engineering, and Purdue Foundry at Unshackled Ventures

Sesquicentennial stop in Silicon Valley explores entrepreneurship

Charlie Walker, who flew three NASA shuttle missions, met with kids at Purdue Space Day

Record Attendance for Purdue Space Day

November

Frontiers Cover

Initiative in Data and Engineering Applications

Dean Mung Chiang with the Shah family

Gift launches Shah Family Global Innovation Lab

Sticker sensor

Simple stickers may save lives of heart patients, athletes and lower medical costs for families

December

Dean Mung Chiang signing agreements

Purdue Online, Taiwanese University Pact Helps Fill Crucial Need for Engineers on Global Scale

Research Symposium crowd

New Office of Undergraduate Research launched to scale up research opportunities for Boilermaker engineers

Theresa Carter giving speech

Winter commencement and speech by IE alumna and retired Air Force Major General Theresa Carter

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