Purdue Technology News http://www.tech.purdue.edu/ Technology News from Purdue University en-ushttp://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6533Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:00 EDTNovember 2009 alumni newsletter is onlineThe November 2009 alumni newsletter has been posted online.

Read about:

  • an AT alum who biked across America
  • a student-built robot that did well in international competition
  • a CIT professor's role in a Purdue's new Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6518Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:10:56 EDTPurdue College of Technology program at South Bend to host Project Lead the Way conference for local high school students.The Purdue College of Technology at South Bend will host a conference on October 9 for high school students enrolled in Project Lead The Way (PLTW) schools in the South Bend and Elkhart areas. The conference will offer a day of hands-on activities for a select group of students from each school.

Organizers have several goals for the conference, including:

  • Engage the high school students in some fun and interesting activities to spur their interest in engineering and engineering technology
  • Provide some motivation for better high school study habits by linking the technical activities to math and science
  • Inform students of the degree options available at Purdue’s College of Technology at South Bend and expose them to each discipline, to help them decide what they may want to pursue
  • Introduce them to the Indiana University-South Bend campus, where their Purdue classes would be held, so they can see what college is like
  • Link the necessity for a college degree to jobs in local industries

The conference activities are being designed by South Bend Statewide Technology faculty in cooperation with PLTW high school teachers to insure that the activities planned meet the interest level and ability of the students. There will be four activities running in parallel during each session: a computer graphics technology (CGT) project, an electrical and computer engineering technology (ECET) project, a mechanical engineering technology (MET) project, and a tour of the IUSB campus.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6517Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:10:58 EDTSouth Bend plans fall industrial advisory board meetingThe Purdue College of Technology at South Bend will host its fall industrial advisory board meeting Monday, October 26 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. A general session will start the meeting followed by three concurrent sessions: the ECET advisory board meeting, the MET advisory board meeting and the site advisory meeting.

Dennis R. Depew, Dean of the College of Technology at Purdue University, will be the guest speaker.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6510Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:09:53 EDTEET professor elected president of the Society for Social Implications of TechnologyKarl Perusich, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering technology at the College of Technology in South Bend, has been elected president of the Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the IEEE. His one-year term will start in 2010.

As a society president, he will be a voting member of the Technical Activities Board of IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Among other volunteer duties, he is currently treasurer of SSIT, a member of the IEEE/UN Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge Steering Committee, and chair of its Society Partnership Group.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6508Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:09:46 EDTRolls-Royce joins more than 200 companies actively recruiting Purdue studentsRolls-Royce brought a full-scale model of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned military aircraft to Purdue University Airport for public view on Sept. 9 and 10.

The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system is used by the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. Cruising at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet, it can survey large geographic areas with pinpoint accuracy, giving military decision-makers real-time information regarding enemy location, resources and personnel.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6503Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:09:54 EDTHigh-tech job fair aims to match Indiana companies, Purdue studentsIndiana companies looking for new employees can recruit from among more than 600 job-hunting Purdue University students at an Oct. 28 job fair.

Employers can register online for the 12th annual High Tech Job Fair for Indiana Companies at http://www.purdue.edu/jobfair. The event, offered by Purdue's Technical Assistance Program for in-state jobs only, will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union ballrooms.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6498Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:09:14 EDTPurdue to host Deming Institute conferenceBusiness people and students from across the country will gather at Purdue University to explore the philosophy of the man credited with improving manufacturing processes and quality control in the United States and Japan.

The W. Edwards Deming Institute Fall Conference will be Oct. 10-11 in Purdue's Stewart Center.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6490Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:08:19 EDTAugust 2009 CoT newsletter onlineThe August 2009 e-newsletter for College of Technology alumni and friends has been posted.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6476Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:07:00 EDT"Back to School" picnic July 30 in South BendThe College of Technology at South Bend invites incoming freshmen, current students, and local alumni to its "Back to School" picnic Thursday, July 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hurwich Pavilion in St. Patrick's Park.

RSVP to Lori Szczplorski at lori_ski@hotmail.com.

The event is sponsored by Purdue Alumni Club of St. Joe Valley.

]]>http://www.tech.purdue.edu/News_and_Events/news/News_Article/?id=6464Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:07:38 EDTPurdue to participate in tuition program to support veteransMilitary veterans, reserve and active duty military students attending Purdue University's West Lafayette campus and the Technology Statewide sites can use the Yellow Ribbon Program to help pay for their education.

The Yellow Ribbon Program, which is an enhancement of the Post 9/11 GI Bill, will be available Aug. 1. The program lowers tuition costs that would not be fully covered by the GI Bill. Assistance will be awarded to the first 50 Purdue undergraduate, graduate or professional students who qualify. Purdue will contribute $2,000 per academic year, and the Department of Veterans Affairs will match that amount.

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