Congratulations to Allison Boyd, an aeronautical engineering technology student who just became a 2024 Truman Scholar. Boyd joins a list of worldwide leaders who have been recipients, including Supreme Court justices, policy experts and public service heroes.
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Technology Alumni Awards celebrate Polytechnic prestige, renewed alumni board, future goals
Twelve #PurduePolytechnic alumni received awards celebrating their noteworthy contributions to Purdue, their industries, and the world of technology as a whole.
PhD fellow earns Purdue Efficiency Award for organizational reforms in construction
Candice Sexton was awarded Purdue University's Efficiency Improvement awards for her systemic efforts in recruiting young women and girls in construction, and for immense support of an NSF entrepreneurial grant project.
Polytechnic faculty elevated to IEEE senior member status
Congratulations to Computer and Information Technology faculty BC Min and Wenhai Sun. They are now senior members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which fosters researchers and technology engineers around the world.
Australian Fellowship allows Polytechnic faculty to innovate practices against online grooming
Purdue Polytechnic’s Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar is one of seven scholars named to the University of Adelaide’s first-ever class of international fellows. They will add their own behavioral and technical expertise to the university’s research in methods to identify and catch online child predators.
French wins Lifetime Achievement Award for efforts to help Indiana businesses
Purdue Polytechnic's Mark French has spent the equivalent of a second career consulting Hoosier businesses, making sure they succeed. He was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Purdue for these efforts—find the details in our newsroom.
Transportation Research Board awards Polytechnic PhD candidate
Congratulations to Purdue Polytechnic's Cheng Peng, awarded by a DC-based National Academy branch for significant contributions as a young scholar of transportation research.
Purdue Polytechnic professor wins third international Lean Six Sigma book award
Chad Laux from the Department of Computer and Information Technology is now onto the third award for his coauthored work on management and efficiency, "The Ten Commandments of Lean Six Sigma."
Six Purdue Polytechnic faculty win Seed for Success, high dollar-value research award
On November 1, Purdue honored Polytechnic professors Jin Wei-Kocsis, Nathan Mentzer, Alejandra Magana, Vetria Byrd, Joseph Hupy and Baijian “Justin” Yang with Seed for Success Acorn Awards. The award recognizes Purdue researchers who have obtained their first grant of $1 million or more in funding.
Construction Management professor earns Thomas C. Keefer Medal for safety research
The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) honored Purdue Polytechnic’s Yi Jiang and his colleagues with the 2023 Thomas C. Keefer Medal for their research into how road surface conditions relate to the outcomes of traffic incidents. Their research could lead to improvements in road safety.