Purdue Northwest School of Engineering

06/22/2023

We’re gonna need a bigger display case! Let’s celebrate our ASCE surveying team winning nationals and making PNW history!
https://www.pnw.edu/purdue-university-northwest-asce-surveying-team-takes-first-place-at-national-competition/

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PNW's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student surveying team made PNW history by winning the 2023 ASCE Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI) Surveying Society-wide Finals Competition.

06/16/2023

More news about our amazing PNW ASCE Surveying Team!

https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2023/06/16/purdue-university-northwest-students-claim-victory-at-asce-uesi-surveying-competition

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Purdue University Northwest earned first place overall at the 2023 ASCE Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute Surveying Competition.

06/14/2023

BIG NEWS! Our ASCE Surveying Team won NATIONALS!!! Let's congratulate them on this huge accomplishment! We are so of our amazing students!

Purdue Northwest College of Engineering and Sciences

06/13/2023

PNW CIVS students triumphed at AISTech 2023 contests! Congratulations to the CIVS research assistants who won 6 awards: ALL THREE awards in the Graduate Student Poster Contest, one award in the Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest, an AIST Foundation Video Contest award, and Material Advantage Student Chapter winner for the AISTech Attendance Challenge! What an achievement! These awards were presented at AISTech 2023 in Detroit:

• Graduate Student Poster Contest 1st place winner: Anurag Karambelkar
• Graduate Student Poster Contest 2nd place winner: Aleeha Zafar
• Graduate Student Poster Contest 3rd place winner: Sam Nielson
• Undergraduate Student Project Presentation Contest 3rd place winners: Shiyu Wang and Qingyun Pu
• AIST Foundation Real Steel Video Contest Prize Winner: Cristina Cabascango
• AISTech Attendance Challenge winner: PNW Materials Advantage Chapter
We are of each of you! Let’s wish our students a big congratulations!

https://www.pnw.edu/civs/2023/05/25/pnw-civs-students-triumphed-at-aistech-2023-contests/

Purdue Northwest College of Engineering and Sciences

06/12/2023

Congratulations to Stewart McMillan (BS ’77) on his induction into the PNW Alumni Hall of Fame! McMillan’s generous support has helped PNW upgrade facilities and student workspace, including the PNW Design Studio on the Hammond campus.

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) has numerous high-achieving alumni who seek to make an impact on their communities and dedicate energy back to their alma mater. On Thursday, June 8 PNW inducted...

06/05/2023

BIG news! Our ASCE Surveying Team is headed to nationals! They won three awards at the ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Symposium: 1st place overall for the ASCE UESI Surveying Competition; 2nd place Field Surveying; 3rd place Topographic Mapping. They head to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville June 10 to compete at nationals!

Let’s give congratulations to team members Quinton Pender, Dylan Barthel, Natalia Briggs, and Krish Zalavadia! !

Purdue Northwest College of Engineering and Sciences

05/31/2023

Computer Science Professor Shuhui Yang has received the 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Grant of Indiana Academy of Science! The DEI grant is to support innovative and impactful projects that further the Academy’s goals of fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific community.

Dr. Yang will be working on the project “Computing Identity Development for Minority and Female Students through Peer Mentoring”. This project aims to increasing diversity in computing, contributing to the development of new theories and models related to identity development in computing fields, and identifying best practices and effective interventions that can be applied in the entire STEM fields and beyond. Congratulations!

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05/23/2023

There are still a few spots open for our Summer Engineering Camp for high school students! This camp is FREE, by the way! Camp is July 24 to 28. The camp will cover practical engineering topics, including 3D printing, renewable energy, bridge/road designing, virtual reality and electric cars. Students will gain hands-on experience building a basal wood bridge, cardboard wind tunnel and EV go-cart.

Register today to reserve your spot: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MO6va1pTLxBMtU?_ga=2.254898241.837418092.1684763356-1620474808.1682785327

Made possible by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

05/22/2023

Computer Science professor Shuhui Yang received STARS Ignite program stipends to support a cohort of faculty and students from PNW to attend the upcoming 2023 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in computing and STARS Celebration! Four computer science students will be selected to join Dr. Yang’s cohort and will travel to Dallas in Sept. for both the Tapia Conference and STARS Celebration Workshop.

The NSF-funded STARS Ignite program supports cohorts of students and faculty to attend diversity-focused computing conferences, providing scholarships and activities that promote community & ignite a collective effort towards leveraging diversity, equity, and inclusion. Students in the STARS Ignite program participate in events that provide training and resources to maximize the benefit of attending diversity-focused conferences.

05/17/2023

PNW’s NASA Rover Team competed at NASA’s 2023 Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. More than 500 students from around the world participated during HERC’s 29th anniversary competition. PNW finished 14th in the College/University Division. We are of team members Anthony Latronica, Juan Ruiz, Zachary Holmes (driver), Allan McAlpine, Rebecca Johnson, Makyah Carpenter-Humphrey (driver), and faculty advisor Harvey Abramowitz.

The team wishes to thank the Undergraduate Research Office, the Indiana Space Grant Consortium, John Hruska, and Rick Rickerson for their support.

Take a look at the team's best run (start at 6:18:38):

Celebrating its 29th year, NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge HERC tasks students from around the world to design, build, and test lightweight, human-p...

05/16/2023

Congratulations to Kimia Mortezaei and Aref Yadollahi – both have been awarded a grant from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to promote innovations and sustainability in engineering education! This grant is supported by the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative, which places a strong emphasis on incorporating sustainability principles into engineering curricula.

https://www.asee.org/about-us/ASEE-News/2023-ASEE-One-Planet-Mini-Grants

05/09/2023

Congratulations to Computer Science undergraduate student Jieying Chen! She was accepted by the REU Site in Pervasive Computing for Smart Health, Safety, and Well-being at Temple University, and joined the summer research program (May 31-Aug. 2).