A robotic toy kit invented by a Purdue University professor captured awards at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and is now just days away from commercialization. Ziro is the brainchild of Purdue Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering Karthik Ramani. Dubbed the largest consumer electronics event in the world, CES 2016 named the toy one of three "Best Maker-Friendly Technology" awards.

Students from the Colleges of Engineering, Health and Human Sciences, Pharmacy, and Technology spent Spring Break 2015 studying Engineering and Public Health in the Service Sector with engineering students from La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.

In celebration of the accomplishments Purdue engineering students and faculty have made in tackling international development challenges and to inspire greater achievements in this field, the I2D Lab Exposition was hosted on Friday, March 27.

Globalization, Agriculture and Environment -

Callout: Wednesday, January 28 at 6:00pm ABE 301

Over the past year, a team of Purdue students has been working in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) to design a sand dam to provide water to the village of Endallah, Tanzania for agricultural and domestic purposes.