Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal's CLAN Labs received a VURI award from AT&T Labs in June. AT&T's Virtual University Research Initiative (VURI) program facilitates collaborations between AT&T researchers and universities.

Prehensile Technologies, co-founded by Associate Professor of Engineering Practice Brad Duerstock, was one of only three recipients to receive a special grant from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA).

Robert Fulghum's book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, may be right, as a group of local Pre-K and preschool students discovered recently. Their visit to the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Lab (ISAT) will hopefully start them on a lifelong journey of learning and discovery.

A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the user’s touch - and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand.

IE alumnus Dong Lin and his research team will be listed in the 2018 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for creating the lightest 3-D printed material in the world.

Purdue IE welcomed Philip (Phil) Waclawik to the IE development team on August 21 as a Director of Development. As a Purdue IE alum (BSIE 1983), he will play a key role in helping to engage his fellow IE alumni and further the school’s outreach.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Isobar’s Geoff Cubitt tells how his Purdue BSIE (1992) prepared him well for his career.

Purdue student startup FroYo XPress is developing an automated, self-serve frozen yogurt kiosk that will offer an all-natural, non-dairy frozen yogurt with minimal inventory and labor requirements, according to Purdue Research Foundation news.

Six IE students interned this summer at TVS Motor Company in Bangalore and Hosur, India.

A new featherweight, flame-resistant and super-elastic “metamaterial” has been shown to combine high strength with electrical conductivity and thermal insulation, suggesting potential applications from buildings to aerospace. The composite combines nanolayers of a ceramic called aluminum oxide with graphene, which is an extremely thin sheet of carbon.

A multidisciplinary Purdue Engineering team received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to study ways to save energy in motorized machines that produce sheet metal. Purdue IE‘s Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar and Research Engineer James Mann are part of the three-year project.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, JP Morgan Analyst Kevin Griffith tells how his Purdue BSIE (2015) prepared him well for his career.

Purdue IE will offer a new “Introduction to Simulation” (IE 48100) course starting in the spring of 2018.

Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal and six co-authors will receive the 2017 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award recognizing the Best Systems Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.