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Funded research awards for March 2019. Bolded names are Purdue Polytechnic faculty or staff; starred names are the principal investigators.
Published: April 30, 2019
Purdue announced an agreement with Frontier Airlines and Airbus to add Airbus A320 passenger jet training to the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology’s professional flight curriculum.
Published: April 23, 2019
Students from the National University of Colombia (UNAL) participated in Purdue’s Spring 2019 IronHacks competition, winning first, second and third places in each of the first and second competition groupings.
Published: April 22, 2019
Student teams in Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Engineering Technology will give poster presentations about their industry-sponsored capstone projects in the Co-Rec on Thursday, April 25, during the 2019 Tech Expo, a business-to-business trade show.
Published: April 19, 2019
Xiumin Diao, assistant professor of engineering technology, has come up with a patented design to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in windy conditions, with more energy-efficiency and larger payloads.
Published: April 18, 2019
The public is invited to the next Purdue Polytechnic Design & Innovation Challenge, to be held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Knoy Hall lobby.
Published: April 16, 2019
Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved the promotion of nine Purdue Polytechnic faculty members.
Published: April 12, 2019
Purdue Aviation Day returns Saturday, April 13, 2019.
Published: April 08, 2019
The University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) recognized Mitchell Springer with its 2019 UPCEA Leadership and Diversity Award.
Published: April 08, 2019
Ken Burbank, head of the School of Engineering Technology, was named the recipient of the James H. McGraw Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Published: April 08, 2019
Twelve ETTE students brought back seven awards from the International Technology & Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) Conference. Scott Bartholomew was also honored at the event.
Published: April 08, 2019
The free Purdue University Cybersecurity Camp will return to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus June 9–14, 2019, for girls entering the ninth through 12th grades.
Published: April 02, 2019
Bedrich Benes has been promoted to senior member status by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Published: April 02, 2019
Funded research awards for February 2019.
Published: March 28, 2019
Dawn Laux, associate department head and clinical associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, has been named a recipient of Purdue’s 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Published: March 25, 2019
The creative and ill-structured nature of graphic design tasks creates difficulty in terms of assessment validity and reliability. Further, best practices in teaching and assessment are hampered by issues around scalability and efficiency. Finally, increasingly validated indications that good...
Published: March 25, 2019
HapTutor-Lab: Promoting Complex Learning in STEM Domains through Intelligent Tutors and Haptic Feedback.
There has been a breakthrough in recent years concerning artificial talking head agents that can have a conversation with the human learning in natural language in the form of...
Published: March 25, 2019
Drs. Bartholomew & McGraw and Mr. Charlesworth hypothesize that some of the struggles with data-driven decision-making instruction stem from the lack of context and real-world application for students (Merrill, Custer, Daugherty, Westrick, & Zeng, 2009). Further, they believe that placing...
Published: March 25, 2019
Students, faculty and staff have been settling in to the Bechtel Innovation Design Center (BIDC), a state-of-the-art collaborative learning facility which opened in September 2017.
Published: March 20, 2019
Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology announced a new “Degree in 3” initiative that would allow select professional flight students to start their degree early this summer and complete the traditional four-year program in three years.
Published: March 19, 2019