The leadership teams charged with implementing the College of Technology strategic plan have been working diligently over the past year to establish metrics and action plans and charting progress and challenges for the seven main areas of the plan.

Many of the metrics have come from internal brainstorming, feedback from departments, and the implementation of surveys and other instruments across the college. But a key tool that has made the process a bit easier for many of the teams is the Future Purdue Target Worksheet.

We talked with Dean Dennis Depew about the process and how Future Purdue plays a role in the college’s strategic planning process.

Bernie Wulle, associate professor of aviation technology, came to Purdue in January 1992 from a job as a pilot for a Caribbean airline. He was familiar with campus and the aviation technology program, having earned a master’s degree in special education and started a flight training program with Lafayette Aviation at Purdue’s airport. Over the last 19 yeas, he has focused on being a teacher who can help his students succeed. He has won the Dwyer Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and the Outstanding Tenured Faculty Award. In the summer of 2010, he helped bring Able Flight to campus, giving students with physical disabilities a chance to learn how to fly. In addition to his academic duties, he is completing his dissertation through Purdue’s College of Education.

Students in CGT 44200 (Production for Computer Animation) create short films as part of their coursework.

The upper-division course covers advanced spline modeling techniques, lighting techniques, applied shading, motion dynamics and controllers, particle systems, application customization programming, and pre-production development and planning.

See an example of work created by students enrolled in CGT 42200 (Production for Computer Animation): "The Note", by Chris Staehler, Thomas Haley Hermiz, and Adam Gasper.

Daniel Williams, a student in electrical engineering technology, will partcipate in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Indiana Undergraduate Research Program this spring. His mentor will be Suranjan Panigrahi.

Read the news release.

For the month of December, the College of Technology received external funding that totaled $1,649,581. The funds will pay for research and graduate fellowships.

The Council on the Status of Women (CSW), an organization that works to provide a voice for all women at Purdue University, is seeking nominations for the 2011 Violet Haas Award. Mary Sadowski, associate dean for undergraduate programs and learning in the College of Technology, was last year's recipient.

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