News
March 14, 2015
Severe Weather Preparedness Week
On Thursday, March 19 at approximately 10:15 AM & 7:35 PM, the state will conduct its annual Tornado Drill as part of Indiana’s Severe Weather Preparedness Week
March 13, 2015
EE Graduate Program is ranked #10 and CmpE ranked #12 in the US News & World Report national rankings. The college of engineering is ranked #6.
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.
March 3, 2015
Professor Jan Allebach receives IS&T 2015 Service Award
The Society for Imaging Science & Technology bestows the award to an individual in recognition of outstanding service to a Chapter or to the Society. Professor Allebach was recognized for creating the new Electronic Imaging Conference Measuring, Modeling, and Reproducing Material Appearance.
February 26, 2015
PhD Candidates Aida Ebrahimi and Nate Kinsey receive Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Awards
The Fellowship is highly competitive and recognizes students' superior academic abilities and scholarly achievements. The title of Aida's dissertation is "Droplet-based non-Faradaic Impedance Sensing for Combating Antibiotic Resistance". She is advised by Professor Muhammad Ashraful Alam. Nate's dissertation is "A Platform for Practical Nanophotonics: Nitrides and Oxides for Integrated Optical Devices". He is advised by Professor Alexandra Boltasseva.
February 26, 2015
Two ECE Professors have work copyrighted in 2013-2014
Professors Dimitrios Peroulis and Babak Ziaie are among ten researchers who have copyrighted work in 2013-2014 through the Purdue Research Foundation's Office of Technology Commercialization.
February 20, 2015
Company led by ECE graduate student Mohit Singh wins third place in Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition
AccuPS is working on a 3-D human-computer user interface device that can pair with a Bluetooth-enabled device for integrating family-oriented entertainment systems.
February 18, 2015
ECE Professor Mike Melloch gives students small-school experience in classroom
At a university of 40,000 students, giving classrooms the personal feel of a small school is hard. However, despite his usual class size of 60 students, that is exactly what ECE Professor Mike Melloch does.
February 16, 2015
Professors Alex Quinn and Saurabh Bagchi receive Google Faculty Research Award
Google Research Awards are "structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world." The project that earned this Google Research Award is titled "Man with machine in the battle against fake consumer reviews".
February 12, 2015
Professor Ed Delp named Scientist of the Year by IS&T/SPIE
He was cited "for contributions to multimedia security and image and video compression." The groups are the Society for Imaging Science and Technology and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Previous ECE winners are Jan Allebach (2004) and Charlie Bouman (2014). No other organization can boast more than one winner.