A doctoral student in ENE, Chua also teaches and coaches faculty members across the country in ways to provide their students with real-world, hands-on learning experiences.

The November 10 colloquium featured IDE alumnus Gary Horlacher (NASA shuttle flight director) and Purdue history professor Michael Smith.
Video time-stamps:
• 1961 video footage on Gagarin, Shepard, Grissom, Titov: 4:38
• Dr. Michael Smith (Purdue professor of history): 9:09
• 1981-2011 shuttle-era video footage: 30:15
• Gary Horlacher (NASA flight director): 35:05
• "Lessons Learned" + Q&A: 55:00

A look at how engineering education research can be expanded into the industrial setting.

Join us on November 10, 3:30 p.m., in the Armstrong Hall atrium for this inaugural Interdisciplinary Engineering colloquium.

The PECASE Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Yuxiang Wang, PhD, ENE's International Student Experience Advisor and an academic advisor, is the co-editor of the new book "Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices, and Teacher Responses" (Routledge, 2011).

Cox is one of four experts participating in a September 26 panel and announcement at the White House on "Workplace Flexibility Policies for American Scientists and Their Families."

The symposium "Team-Based Learning and Peer Evaluation in Management Education: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions," based on software tools designed by Ohland's research team, was named the Best Symposium in Management Education and Development presented at the Academy's 2011 annual meeting.

One of six Purdue faculty winning this prestigious honor for 2010, Pawley will use her grant to study why some groups have remained chronically underrepresented in engineering degree programs.

ENE's Richard W. McDowell Best Counselor Award goes to Deckard for excellence in advising First-Year Engineering students. Deckard was named Assistant Director of First-Year Engineering Advising earlier this year.