Learn more about your colleague, Chien-tsung Lu, associate professor of aviation technology.

Beginning in fall 2009, select students in Purdue University's aviation technology program will have the option of earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in a total of five years.

• Three College of Technology faculty members have been named Faculty Scholars: Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, associate professor of computer graphics technology, Yi Jiang, associate professor of building construction management, and Michael Kane, associate professor of computer and information technology. Recipients of this honor have been tenured within the last five years and are named in recognition of their scholarship. Faculty scholars are nominated by their academic areas, reviewed by a committee of professors in the College of Technology, and approved by the provost. They receive funding to support their research. The program was created in 1998. The newly named Faculty Scholars will begin their five-year terms in the fall of 2009.
• Todd Kelley, assistant professor of industrial technology, received the Silvius Wolansky Outstanding Publication award at the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, March 26-28. During the conference, he also delivered the Epsilon Pi Tau International Breakfast address.
  
• At the same ITEA conference, George Rogers, professor of industrial technology, was designated a Distinguished Technology Educator by ITEA, and he received the Distinguished Service Citation from Epsilon Pi Tau.

• Two teams with building construction management students placed first and second at the third annual Idea-to-Product Competition for Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship in March. Erick Smith, a BCM graduate student, and his wife, Jessica, won the competition with their project titled “This Old Farm.” Conrad Schneider and the GreenBuild organization placed second with their Grow Green Innovations project which involved recapturing an existing local greenhouse and building a sustainable landscaping business around it. Read the Discovery Park announcement
• Computer and information technology students Zhanibek Datbayev and Philip Winstead have been named finalists for the U.S. Imagine Cup Software Design competition, sponsored by Microsoft. They will compete in the finals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2-5, 2009. Their mentor, Kyle Lutes, associate professor of computer and information technology, will accompany them. Datbayev and Winstead are taking Lutes’s CIT 499 (Software Development for Mobile Computers II) course. Their semester project is their entry in the competition.
  

Kevin Taylor has been appointed Purdue University’s affiliate director of Project Lead The Way (PLTW) effective July 1, 2009. PLTW focuses on introducing engineering concepts in middle and high schools across the United States. Kevin has been co-director of PLTW with Michael O’Hair, who will be returning to his faculty assignment at the end of the academic year.

Racing fans can get an up-close look at a variety of racecars during the second annual Motorsports on the Mall event April 23.

High school students from east-central Indiana will put their knowledge of science to use in the sixth annual Egg Launch Design Competition on April 24 at the Purdue University College of Technology location in Anderson.

The competition, sponsored by the Purdue College of Technology at Anderson, will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Anderson University Flagship Center, 2705 Enterprise Drive. In case of rain, the event will take place May 1.

Visit the Egg Launch Web site.

As part of a larger effort to recruit veterans to enroll at Statewide Technology locations, a student and location director attended a two-day symposium titled “Transitions: Battlemind to Home” in March.

Students at Purdue's College of Technology at Greensburg will be planting flowers and giving away trees as part of an Earth Day service learning project on April 18.

See an updated list of sponsored research projects within the College of Technology.

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