Increasing energy conservation to mitigate the effects of climate change is a grand strategy with lofty goals that depends on continuous improvements to the energy efficiency of every powered device and activity. That includes smartphones, and the batteries that energize them.

Charles A. Bouman, Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2021 Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).

Purdue University’s College of Engineering recognized faculty, lecturers and other staff for their outstanding dedication to teaching Boilermaker Engineers.

In July of 2020, exciting news was reported: a team of researchers had discovered strong evidence for fractional statistics of anyons, a quasiparticle thought to exist at the time, but never proven until observed in the lab of Dr. Michael Manfra, Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University.

Saurabh Bagchi, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (by courtesy), was elected to the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors for a three-year term that began Jan. 1, 2022.