Bill Hutzel, professor of mechanical engineering technology, and undergraduate Danielle LeClerc are continuing the School of Engineering Technology’s years-long Biowall research in clean, sustainable indoor air. LeClerc is incorporating data from NASA to determine which plants have the best air-cleaning performance.

Eric Diet and Jae Yong Lee of the Purdue Homeland Security Institute have developed a computer model to test how well the “run, hide, fight” mantra works during an active shooter situation.

Xiumin Diao is helping robots recognize and predict human actions. His research could lead to improvements in technology used for physical therapy and other medical applications.

Ran Ren, a graduate teaching assistant in Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Construction Management Technology, is researching ways to improve building information modeling (BIM) in the field of structural analysis.

Bedrich Benes, Hao Kang and corporate researchers developed a touch-screen method to fly unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and take pictures with drone-mounted cameras.

Research assistants in Purdue Polytechnic displayed research projects at the Realizing the Digital Enterprise Graduate Student Poster Session.

Purdue Polytechnic welcomed new faculty members in 2018 who have a variety of research interests.

Cross-cutting research aims to connect technical solutions from researchers, technologists and industry partners to the needs of citizens, employees and volunteers.

Purdue Polytechnic researchers are working to develop and apply technologies that enable and support healthy, sustainable communities.

Purdue Polytechnic researchers are working with stakeholders in both public and private sectors to solve challenges in cybersecurity and critical infrastructure that affect global economics, security and health.