The Purdue College of Engineering has announced the establishment of the John Martinson Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.

A dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle powered just by the force and torque of light has become the world's fastest-spinning object. Scientists at Purdue University created the object, which revolves at 300 billion revolutions per minute. Or, put another way, half a million times faster than a dentist's drill.

Purdue University has announced new leadership for its Department of Computer Science, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and Integrated Data Science Initiative.

David Ebert, the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will lead Purdue’s Integrative Data Science Initiative; Dongyan Xu, the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science, will lead CERIAS; and Sunil Prabhakar will return to his role of head, leading the Department of Computer Science.

In specialty online engineering master’s program rankings, Purdue ranked first in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, second in Electrical Engineering, third in online engineering programs for veterans, and sixth in engineering management programs.

Thirty-two ECE faculty and lecturers are being recognized as Outstanding Engineering Teachers for summer and fall 2019. These individuals received teaching evaluation scores of 4.7 or higher in undergraduate or graduate classes with enrollments of 10 and above and at least a 50% response rate.

Purdue alumna Dr. Qian Lin has been named an HP Fellow. Lin (MSEE ’87) is the first woman at HP Inc. to earn the distinction, which is reserved for only the company's most extraordinary technical contributors. She is being recognized for her contributions and expertise in imaging.

Most of today’s solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground, even more electricity might be generated.