Gary Bertline, distinguished professor and former dean, recalls how he and the college‘s leadership team came up with a future-forward plan to redefine and differentiate our college a decade ago — and converted the formerly skeptical Purdue President Mitch Daniels into being one of the college’s biggest supporters.
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IN-MaC visitors meet on-site to celebrate, plan for future of Design and Innovation, Pathways programs
Purdue Polytechnic's Indiana Manufacturing Competitiveness Center just hosted a big group over two days to plan for the future of two massive (and still growing) programs that bring hands-on workforce preparedness to new generations:
ABET accreditors visit Â鶹¾«Æ·to assess programs across three departments
Â鶹¾«Æ·appreciated the opportunity to host the team from ABET assigned to evaluate the quality of our programs. This kind of accreditation is very important for our grads—read more about it here:
Pumpkin Chunking event at New Albany provides fun, engagement for local students
Â鶹¾«Æ·in New Albany just hosted their ever-popular (and importantly, very messy) Pumpkin Chunking event for 2024. See what they got up to this year!
Alumna achieves Fulbright grant for 2024-25
Our recent graduate Olivia Anderson is heading out to North Macedonia as a Fulbright grant awardee! Read on:
Purdue aviation team wins first place award for innovative, multifunctional airport luggage cart
Two School of Aviation and Transportation Technology grad students and their faculty advisor just won an award for a convenient, practical upgrade to the system used to move luggage around airports and runways. Read about how it works here:
Purdue students, faculty in Indianapolis learn about manufacturing technology innovations at Chicago exhibition
Â鶹¾«Æ·students in Indianapolis visited the (IMTS) in Chicago this month to learn about new technologies, meet manufacturing representatives and explore career possibilities.
Maha Fluid Power 2024 tracks ‘research trends,’ provides support network across industry
“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.”
Samsung, Stellantis joint venture provides tech opportunities for Purdue, Kokomo students
The new, massive electric vehicle battery producer in Kokomo means great things for Â鶹¾«Æ·students, both from our statewide location in Kokomo and from elsewhere, who want to get hands-on experience in the EV industry. Read more:
Engineering Technology researchers win awards in manufacturing, industrial engineering, teaching for mixed-reality work
A mixed-reality research team which began in 2022 with Farid Breidi's NSF grant just swept several categories of the American Society for Engineering Education's annual awards.