The discipline rankings are based entirely on peer evaluations, whereas the college rankings are a combination of peer and recruiter assessments, along with a variety of performance-based factors. EE ranked #10, and CmpE ranked #9, compared to #10 last year.

The award was for outstanding early career contributions to the microwave profession.

In the last 12 months more than 13,000 people have run simulations and 309,000 have made use of tutorials, lectures, or seminars at nanoHUB.org, a science and engineering gateway made up of community-contributed resources.

The title is "Analysis and control of PMSG-based wind turbine with Vienna rectifier near current zero crossings". His advisor is Professor Dionysios Aliprantis.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.

Professor Appenzeller's research interests include experimenting with novel device concepts to improve transistor performance, exploration of nanomaterials and future nanoelectronics applications.

The Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award is presented to men and women who have distinguished themselves in any field in ways that reflect favorably on Purdue University, the engineering profession, or society in general.

Bearing Analytics, led by doctoral students Anurag Garg and Lokesh Gupta, won $30,000 as the top presenter in the Gold Division for graduate and undergraduate student teams

BoilerMake featured ideas ranging from abstract data analyzing applications strictly for employer use to fun, personal projects. The “Domino Bot,” presented by Jack Schneider, Kevin Rockwell and Eric Rice, was not only one of the ideas, but the winning creation.

Professor Weiner received the Mentoring Award, while Professor Janes received the Team Award as part of the Colombia Institute for Advanced Scientific Research