In grateful recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary representation of Purdue University’s Cooperative Education Program, Purdue University is proud to induct BRADLEY MAGGART into the Co-Op Hall of Fame.

Jonathan J. Wilker and his team at Purdue University are working on a new environmentally friendly method to control tenacious shellfish that attach to the hulls of ships, increasing drag and hiking fuel consumption by as much as 50 percent.

Purdue MSE graduate student Kate Reeve has been awarded the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) Charles Hutchins Educational Grant

Global SMT recently posted a a journal written by MSE Professor Carol Handerwerker on, "The State of Metals Recycling". Handerwerker's work with metals recovery from electronic product recycling is focused on high-volume and most valuable metals that are recoverable in an economically feasible way.

Purdue University's College of Education was awarded $2 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation for the project "Using Principles of Design to Advance Teacher Education."

Purdue University researcher led a team that is a finalist for the 2016 R&D 100 award, which has been called the "Oscars of invention."

The team has developed a process to convert trashed packing peanuts into carbon for battery electrodes and also for a technology to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce climate change. The carbon nanoparticles and “microsheets” are produced at low cost from polystyrene and starch-based packing peanuts, respectively, said Vilas G. Pol, an associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and the School of Materials Engineering.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a grant to a Purdue University professor in the College of Engineering working on the characteristics of metals.