Congratulations to Winston Sealy and Bryan Hubbard on their Fulbright 2024-25 Scholar programs. Read about the great work they'll be doing abroad:

Thank you to Richard Voyles for presenting at the most recent Dean's Lecture Series on his work in human-robot interaction!

“There is so much technology available to the modern workforce,” Purdue Polytechnic's Dean Castro said. “We give [students] the opportunity to use it all first-hand without ever having to leave the teaching environment.”

Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar is a coauthor on a new study that shows how trafficking victims could turn the odds in their favor with the help of salon workers—their rare point of contact with the outside world. Read more about what Seigfried-Spellar and the team recommend:

Congratulations to Jin Wei-Kocsis for a truly sizeable grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more about her team's research topics, and what they hope to achieve:

Purdue Polytechnic's Thomas Hacker and graduate student Zhiwei Chu are part of a wider group of Purdue experts helping the National Science Foundation create a new center for AI-powered imaging, which will help identify weaknesses in buildings located in or around natural disaster zones.

Purdue’s SCalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement in K-12 (SCALE K-12) program welcomed K-12 teachers to West Lafayette for week-long programs to train them how to include microelectronics content in their curricula. It’s part of an initiative by the U.S. Department of Defense to build a domestic semiconductor industry. Professors from three Purdue colleges, including the Polytechnic’s Greg Strimel, are collaborating with faculty at several Midwestern universities to expand SCALE K-12’s reach to 19,000 students in 12 school districts across Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.

Congratulations to Kevin Dittman and Paul Thomas—and especially to our recent PhD graduate Sakhi Aggrawal for a successful presentation:

Â鶹¾«Æ·faculty member James Tanoos presented several hands-on case studies to graduate-level students in Germany at the beginning of the summer, as part of an ongoing set of journey's across Europe during the summer semester. Find out more:

For the 2023-24 academic year, 108 research projects were either initiated or received continuing funding within Purdue Polytechnic, altogether totaling over $16 million. Research grants represent a wide range of Purdue Polytechnic, including faculty across all academic departments as well as contributions from many graduate students listed as co-authors on many projects.