ECE professor Mark Lundstrom, who served as acting dean for College of Engineering for the past year, has contributed not only to minds in his classrooms at the University but to nanotechnology research and outreach around the world, and his service has been recognized with an Order of the Griffin presented by Purdue President Mitch Daniels.

As they did in 2020, Purdue's online graduate engineering programs rank third in U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of the Best Online Programs in the nation. Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering all ranked No. 1 in their categories.

Purdue University is recognizing Outstanding Teachers for Fall 2020, including a dozen from ECE.

Purdue ECE alumnus Don Thompson’s vision for service has made a difference in the lives of millions of customers and employees across the country throughout his career.

Cooling demands are on the rise globally, caused in no small part by higher living standards and the increased number of household electronics and appliances. Having a simple and effective way to provide passive cooling – an approach that focuses on reducing temperatures without consuming energy - could help make renewable energy more widely achievable and available.

A Purdue ECE professor has helped develop an open-source tool that provides an added layer of security for the software supply chain. Santiago Torres-Arias, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, started working on in-toto while he was a PhD student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

A team of researchers from Purdue ECE has received an award from the National Spectrum Consortium for a project titled “DSARC: 5G Dynamic Spectrum Access and Radar Coexistence.” This is a roughly $8-million effort over a period of three years. Raytheon BBN Technologies is the lead institution, with Purdue ECE and Novowi LLC being the two collaborative institutions.

Jan P. Allebach, the Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2020 Johann Gutenberg Prize from the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). The prize has been granted every year since 1987 to recognize outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, printing technology.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Purdue ECE Prof. Samuel P. Midkiff as one of its 64 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2020 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that move the computing field forward.