Purdue University in Indianapolis gives students a slew of opportunities to interact with local or large-scale organizations through a variety of means, including EPICS and VIP.

In their very first year of building and racing an evkart in Purdue's evGrandPrix race, the VIP team finishes in a historic third place, overcoming obstacles throughout.

A team comprised of faculty from Purdue Libraries, the School of Engineering Education (ENE), and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was awarded $542,660 from the National Science Foundation to build data lifecycle ethical management (DLEM) competencies in undergraduate student researchers, with emphasis on the ethical handling of data. “Not only will VIP inform the work on this research project, the program’s students and their graduate and faculty mentors will benefit directly from the resources and tools to be developed,” said VIP Program Director Carla Zoltowski, a clinical associate professor of engineering practice and co-PI for the project. “Many of the VIP teams involve data and utilize AI/ML approaches to address their research and design challenges, so it becomes incredibly important for the teams to learn and implement ethical data management and design/research decision-making strategies given the real-life implications of the projects.”

Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun, clinical associate professor of music in the College of Liberal Arts and VIP mentor for AI for Music (AIM), presented "Embracing AI Technology in Music Performance" at the Westwood Lecture Series on April 17.

Several VIP students, under the guidance of faculty and graduate mentors, on the Autonomous Motorsports (AMP) team will present their work at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

VIP student, Jiashen (Shen) Kuo, completed his ECE Senior Design project with the Pre-Trained Models in Deep Learning team led by Prof. Jamie Davis. Shen's project was a tool to automatically extract data from pre-trained model data cards in order to build an indexed dataset for future study. Shen's work was included in a conference paper for Mining Software Repositories 2024!

VIP team designs Narcan delivery drone to bring aid to remote communities

VIP mentor, Prof. Yeon-Ji “Kristen” Yun, leads an NSF funded project using AI to improve musical performance. Several VIP undergraduate students are working with her on the AI for Music (AIM) team.

The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program announced the VIP Spring 2023 Awards during the last week of April. These awards are our way to congratulate and thank the undergraduate students, graduate mentors, faculty and staff mentors for a successful year.

Along with their VIP mentors, Profs. Wei Zakharov and Yung-Hsiang Lu, VIP undergraduates publish article analyzing visual data from five countries and three U.S. states to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown policies to reduce the spread of COVID-19.