A Boilermaker Welcome! Azizi Penn is a native of California, born in South Los Angeles. She discovered coding in high school and has been hooked ever since. She earned a B.S. in Computer Science directly after high school and an M.S. in Software Engineering later in life. She is married with three children.

A Boilermaker Welcome! Bray Bonner joins us from Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked in academia for the last seven years serving as an engineering technology instructor and program director (department chair) at a technical college for four years. Currently, Bray is an IT project manager lead for Instructional Technology and Research, where he manages high performance computing (HPC) projects whose end users are national researchers, campus faculty and their students.

A Boilermaker Welcome! Fadhla is from Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia. She received a Bachelor of Engineering in Informatics from Gunadarma University located in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta. She also received a MS in Communication and Media Engineering from Hochscule Offenberg on a German Academic Exchange scholarship.

A Boilermaker Welcome! Brooks is from Lewisburg, Tennessee. He graduated in the Spring of 2020 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with honors. After graduation, he moved to Taiwan with the Fulbright Program as an English Teaching Assistant in Yunlin County for the Spring of 2021.

A Boilermaker Welcome! Kevin is from Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering while simultaneously completing the teacher preparation program certification for secondary mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Campus.

How can being an artist and a poet impact one’s life as a researcher? What are the common threads between seemingly disparate communities of practice? Chanel Beebe, artist, writer, social entrepreneur, engineer, and doctoral candidate in the School Engineering Education at Purdue shares her experience and thoughts about these questions.

The Teaching Academy and the Office of the Provost at Purdue congratulate 25 individuals and teams of faculty, instructors, staff and graduate students who have been selected for special recognition in Round 2 of the Award for Exceptional Teaching and Instructional Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In the world of motorsports, chasing a dream never ends. There is always another race, another track, and the hope for another win. And as a Boilermaker, Alex Offenbach knows the drill that every race means he keeps going again and again and again until the checkered flag waves. On Sunday at the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500, Alex will be working alongside his teammates on Andretti Autosport for a third year as their damper specialist. Last year at our annual Interdisciplinary Engineering Colloquium, "Bumper to Bumper Engineering," Alex talked about his dream working at the Indy 500, his preparation in Purdue Engineering and the Multidisciplinary Engineering undergraduate degree program, and the payoffs for the hard work and long hours.

Now Accepting Applications for Professor of Engineering Education

The School of Engineering Education at Purdue University invites applications at the rank of Professor. Purdue University seeks to attract exceptional candidates with interests and expertise in any area of interest to engineering education.

Chanel Beebe is an artist, writer, social entrepreneur, engineer, and Doctoral Candidate in the School Engineering Education at Purdue. Join host Dr. Ruth Streveler as Chanel shares her journey existing and thriving in various areas of expertise and how she uncovers her contributions to Engineering Education and beyond!

Acoustical Engineer Rob St. Claire has taken a couple of giants leaps since graduating from Purdue (’16 MDE Acoustical and ’18 MS ME) leaving his mark on two high profile projects for the Ford Motor Company – the Lincoln Aviator and the all-new Mustang MACH E.

Congratulations to our graduate students and faculty who received 2020-21 Graduate Education Program awards from Purdue Engineering!

David Evenhouse - Outstanding Research Award
Justin Major - Outstanding Service Scholarship
Yi-Chieh Sun, Andrew Robert Roginski - Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Kerrie Douglas - Outstanding Faculty Mentor

Today, we would like to acknowledge the faculty who received the most “shout outs” for their efforts to provide a superior learning environment in engineering, and help our students develop into that “precisely right” Purple Squirrel!

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is celebrating female engineers throughout history for Women's History Month and featuring our own Dr. Donna Riley, Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education. Learn more about Dr. Riley and all five female engineers, each on her own persistent pursuit to shatter glass ceilings in engineering.

Dr. Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue shares research that has helped her answer the question, "how can we support all students, during and after the pandemic?"