Thanks to a group of Purdue Engineering students, Lafayette’s Greenbush Cemetery has a new historical marker that pays tribute to a local Civil War colonel.

Keith LeGrand, assistant professor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering, is working on developing estimation algorithms that fuse information from a variety of sources for the next generation of sensors.

Students in BME 595 showed off wearable sensors on stage during a live karaoke lab, designed to measure their reaction to a potentially stressful activity.

Ran Dai, an associate professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, aims to develop intelligent, origami-inspired transformable systems to support the design and control of adaptable systems for resource reuse and cost reduction in space missions.

Led by Tiwei Wei, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a Purdue team has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop cooling systems.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $150,000 grant to faculty members in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue School of Language and Cultures and Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education program for a curricular initiative that integrates the humanities and engineering.

A delegation from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University visited Purdue University with a focus on strengthening the collaboration between Purdue and NYCU in semiconductor initiatives at both institutions.

Amit Varma, Purdue’s Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Bowen Laboratory, was part of the Purdue research to establish SpeedCore, an award-winning construction system.

Purdue has entered into another landmark international agreement, this one with the government of India, to advance workforce development, research and development, and industry partnerships in semiconductors.

Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the PI on a project entitled “OptNet: Optimization with p-bit Networks.” Sunil Bhave, professor of ECE, is part of a team working on a project entitled “Quantum phononics to advance quantum information processing.”