Meet Purdue EEE women, Maddy Williams (BSEEE '18), Hailey Benfield (Current EEE Sophomore), Rebecca Ciez (EEE Associate Professor), and Clarreese Greene (Current EEE PhD student). For them, women's history is in the making.

An interdisciplinary team of Purdue engineering students, led by associate professor Zhi (George) Zhou, is one of the top 15 teams among 225 teams in the country selected as finalists in the EnergyTech University Prize 2024 competition. These teams have been awarded $3,000 for their business plans and will advance to compete in the National Pitch Event this April at the Energy Thought Summit in Austin, Texas.

Congrats to Rebecca Ciez on receiving a 2023 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award! She was awarded $50,000 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for her team’s project: “Plastic Waste to DAC: A Study of the Chemical and Lifecycle Feasibility of Converting Polyolefin Waste to Aminopolymers for Direct Air Capture.”

Purdue University will play a significant role in the Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine (or ReNEW). EEE's Linda Lee serves as PI for Purdue's research which will help define and advance strategies that eliminate toxic so-called “forever chemicals,” while also extracting valuable, reusable minerals from wastewater.

Rylan Elliott, Thalia May, and Adam Spieth brought their Purdue Environmental and Ecological Engineering brains and work ethic to the central Dominican Republic last December. Why? To build a reliable water system for the school community of El Desecho.

Why EEE? For Taymee Brandon, a Ph.D. candidate in Purdue’s EEE program from Montana, U.S.A., the reasons are clear: high-quality education, research and study flexibility, and the acquisition of essential professional skills.

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the years. They know less, however, about the more common moderate-severity disturbances, such as relatively small fires, ice storms, and outbreaks of pests or pathogens. Purdue researchers are discovering more.

John W. Sutherland featured in this Purdue News article on ReElement Technologies using Purdue tech in rare earth elements production.

One of Liddell’s new research projects was recently awarded $50,000 from Purdue’s Ag-Eng seed grant program. The Ag-Eng Collaborative Initiative provides seed money for promising new research between faculty members from the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering.

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