Professor Webb is being honored "for seminal contributions to the description of waves in complex media, including optical forces and energy in dispersive systems, nanophotonics, metamaterial properties, and the characterization of random scattering media."

Professor David Ebert received $40,000 for using visual analytics to reduce the impact of climate change and drought conditions. Professor Babak Ziaie received $20,000 for SmartGait, a device to assess gait parameters and predict falls in people.

ECE students, faculty and staff joined Purdue Student Government to observe the first anniversary of Andrew Boldt's death today (Wednesday, January 21) with a moment of silence at noon. The moment of silence coincided with the usual Purdue Bell Tower ringing 12 times at noon.

A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as "plasmonic metamaterials" for advanced technologies.

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 – the purified germanium semiconductor – and now researchers here are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone.

Researchers at Nano-Meta Technologies Inc. (NMTI) in the Purdue Research Park have shown how to overcome key limitations of a material that could enable the magnetic storage industry to achieve data-recording densities far beyond today's computers.

When Dimitrios Peroulis participated in the IMPACT program in 2012, he had already been experimenting with a flipped classroom and student-centered learning for more than a year, creating online lectures for students to view before class and then using class time to lead them through problems and projects.

The founder of a simulation software startup based on a Purdue University innovation, ECE Professor Gerhard Klimeck, says his company could help the semiconductor industry overcome research and development challenges in designing and manufacturing next-generation transistors.

Boiler Bytes video interview with ECE Professor Thomas Talavage regarding his concussion research.

Researchers have uncovered "smoking-gun" evidence to confirm the workings of an emerging class of materials that could make possible "spintronic" devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies.