Technology Week 2008 : Recap
Twelve official Technology Week 2008 events culminated with the Distinguished Technology Alumni dinner Friday  evening at the Ross Ade Shively Club (Scoreboard photo submitted by Matt McKillip, CIT ’BS 85) and participation in the University's weekend events — Spring Fest and the Honors Day Ceremony.
Below is a recap of some of the Technology Week highlights.
Monday: College of Technology faculty, staff and administrators thanked the Ogle Foundation for its $1 million gift to the New Albany location during a luncheon at Stratto's restaurant in Clarksville, Ind. The funds will allow the New Albany location to establish new electrical and mechanical engineering technology laboratories within the Purdue Technology Center of Southeast Indiana, slated to open this fall.
Tuesday: Long-time supporters of the University and college Richard and Kyle Thomas were honored for their $2 million deferred gift during a luncheon on the West Lafayette campus. The college received $1.8 million of the unrestricted gift and Purdue Libraries received the remaining funds.
Wednesday: Michael Morris, president and CEO of American Electric Power, served as our Dean's Distinguished Lecture Speaker bringing his "University Listening Tour on Energy" to Purdue University. In addition to the lecture, Morris met with a panel of CoT faculty to discuss research within the college's energy and sustainability signature research area and a panel of CoT students to discuss energy concerns and insights. Despite an event-filled Inauguration Week, Morris and AEP staff also met with President France Córdova. Another key event on Wednesday was the annual show and evening program for Purdue's SIGGRAPH chapter that took place in the Materials and Electrical Engineering building.
Thursday: The college celebrated the first Project Lead the Way Student Celebration. Current Purdue students who participated in PLTW while in high school were invited to celebrate with members of the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Workforce Development, and the national PLTW organization. The Dean's Executive Council and several Industrial Advisory Boards were on campus for their spring meetings.
Friday: Seniors celebrated their imminent graduation and alumni status at the annual Senior Send-off Picnic sponsored by the Purdue Technology Alumni Association, which included an IRL race car on display and a Guitar Hero competition on the big screen. In the evening, 11 alumni of the college received distinction at the annual DTA dinner.
Saturday: Despite less than favorable weather, students, faculty, and staff participated in Spring Fest 2008 providing hands-on activities that taught topics, such as animation and building construction methodologies to young attendees.
Visit the Technology Week Web site for slideshow photos. And stay tuned for Technology Week 2009.
Faculty News
Michael Beyerlein, professor and department head for OLS, is one of the editors of "The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries," published this month by John Wiley & Sons. Other editors are Susan Beyerlein, Jill Nemiro and Lori Bradley.
Michael Kane, an assistant professor in CIT and lead genomic scientist at Bindley Bioscience Center, and John Springer, an assistant professor in CIT, recently received notification that their project, "PGRx: An Interactive Software System for Integrating Clinical Genotyping with Prescription Drug Safety Assurance," has been funded by Microsoft Research Group. They will receive a one-year grant of $100,000.
Spring Break in Harlan Co., KY
 Students from the Columbus and Greensburg locations spent their spring break giving a helping hand to a community in need in Harlan County, Ky .About 25 students in an organizational leadership and supervision service-learning course spent the week helping residents of the impoverished county with various tasks, such as fixing up their homes.
Alumni News
Brad Thayer, AT
’91, has been at Boeing the past 11 years and is now working in Supplier Management Procurement Finance with an emphasis on Supplier Collaborative Relationships with Lean as one of the tools.
Richard G. Titus, EET
’72, retired from Cincinnati Incorporated in 1999 with more than 27 years of service. Prior to retirement, he served as field representative working out of the Greensboro, NC Sales and Service office. Richard and his wife Virginia celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary in December 2007.
 Tammy Wiley, OLS
’93, was awarded $10,000 by the Hendricks County Economic Development Partnership (HCEDP) during a business plan competition. Tammy is the owner of an event planning company and her business plan involves a plan to start a banquet hall for corporate meetings within the service area.
CIT open house set for April 25
The Department of Computer and Information Technology will hold its fourth annual open house from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 25 in the second floor of Knoy Hall. Refreshments will be served.
The event will feature class and research project demonstrations, including projects in Web applications for clients, network management and media application, mobile computing, network service infrastructure, wireless local area networking, clinical genotyping/drug safety assurance, bioinformatics cluster computing, law-enforcement searching algorithms and computer forensics.
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Student News
Adetayo Adesanya, a sophomore in EET, won first place at the National Society of Black Engineers conference in Orlando, Fla., in March. He represented Purdue and Region 4 in the Undergraduate Student Technical Research division. His research was on wireless sensor node development, and he has been working with Jeffrey Evans, an assistant professor in EET. He was the only undergraduate in the field of engineering technology, and his competitors were mostly engineering or science majors.
Julie Mariga and Jeffrey Brewer, associate professors in CIT, recently accompanied 20 students to the annual Association of Information Technology Professionals National Collegiate Conference held in Memphis, Tenn. Here is how the Purdue students fared:
Network Design (65 teams)
1st Place - Tyler Howarth and Jared Zachary
2nd Place - Jordan Gibson and Brad Violand
Application Development: (65 teams)
1st Place - Cody Nutt, Matt Levendoski, James O'Cull, Scott Brookie
Systems Analysis and Design (28 teams)
Honorable mention - Stacy Price and Stephanie Semmel
Database Design (65 teams)
Honorable mention - Stacy Price and Stephanie Semmel
Honorable mention – Cody Nutt, Matt Levendoski
Allison Smith and Curtis Kester, OLS students, attended the 2008 Hatton W. Summers Student Ethical Leadership Conference at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. While at the conference, they attended a speech on leadership by Michael Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and the son of Colin Powell. Also, they heard a speech by Ginger Kerrick, NASA spacecraft communicator and deputy chief of the CAPCOM branch, who talked about the journey of becoming a leader and using your leadership ability to help others. In addition, they met students from across the country, explored the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and tried out some Texas barbeque. Smith and Kester said the conference helped them to evolve into better leaders and become more inspired about being a leader in the world today.
Technology students who received awards at the annual Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium include (related story “In the News” section):
Dean's Award
Adam Christ, Frank Garofalo, Brian Michael McCreight, Alex Porter – “Developing Rich Internet Applications using Adobe AIR.”
Technology Students' Award
Kate Plew — “S.M.ART”
IRL Car coming to Knoy
An Indianapolis Racing League car will be parked outside Knoy Hall the week of April 11-17. The car will be on display for students and others to look at and also will be used by students in Joseph Kmec's Fundamentals of Motorsports course (MET 486). Students will conduct various tests on the car, including weight tests, with special scales on loan from the Indiana Department of Transportation. Students taking Kmec's course also study vehicle aerodynamics, racing engine performance, vehicle dynamics, race data acquisition and analysis, composite materials, and other technical challenges facing the racing industry.
Sponsored Research Update
For an updated look at sponsored research activities within the College of Technology, visit the applied research section of the CoT Web site.
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In the News
Prof. Benes provides CO2 animation for Vulcan system
A new, high- resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. Among the Purdue researchers who developed the Vulcan system are Bedrich Benes, assistant professor of computer graphics technology and a research scientist in Purdue's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization, who created the animation.
YouTube (Note: The video received 143,00 views in first two days.)
Purdue Society of Professional Engineers takes first place at Rube Goldberg
For the third time in the last four years, the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers earned the top spot in the 21st annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on April 5 at the Purdue Armory.
The team is led by Drew Wischer, a senior in aviation technology. Other College of Technology members of the team are Michael Stumpf, a senior in aviation technology, and Cale Castle, a sophomore in computer graphics technology.
This year's task was to assemble a hamburger consisting of no less than one precooked meat patty, two vegetables and two condiments, sandwiched between two bun halves. The 17-member Purdue team used 156 steps in its machine, which had a global travel theme. University News Service
$2 million gift benefits College of Technology, Purdue Libraries
The College of Technology and Purdue Libraries received a $2 million gift from alumnus Richard Thomas and his wife, Kyle. The unrestricted gift of $1.8 million will go toward the College of Technology and the rest goes to the Purdue Libraries.
Inside Indiana Business
University News Service
Ogle Foundation thanked for Purdue gift
Will Carter of Shepherdsville, Ky., and Morty Bryant of Derby, Ind., freshmen at the Purdue University College of Technology at New Albany, are waiting for fall, when Purdue opens a new research and business center on Charlestown Road.
"It will give us more space" for classes and labs, Bryant said. "And we'll have a chance to use the new equipment. That will help us. And future students too," Carter said.
The two, who are studying mechanical engineering technology, were part of a small contingent of Purdue students in a crowd of 50 at Stratto's restaurant in Clarksville on April 7.
They were there to thank the Paul Ogle Foundation Inc. for a $1 million gift for the center.
Louisville Courier Journal
University News Service
CNN's Miles O'Brien visits Purdue Airport
Tom Carney, head of Purdue's Department of Aviation Technology, explains to CNN's Miles O'Brien how a damaged airplane can stay in the air.
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CEO discusses energy
The CEO of American Electric Power spoke at Fowler Hall Wednesday about the future of energy.
CEO Michael Morris gave an introduction of technologies like wind, solar, biomass and nuclear power and how these technologies are a part of today’s power industry.
Purdue Exponent
Gaming league drafts CoT student in competition
Eric Earley was drafted to play video games.
"It's a really professional setting; it operates the same as other sports," said Earley, a senior in the College of Technology. Earley traveled to Austin over spring break to be chosen for the Championship Gaming Series.
The Championship Gaming Series is a league of six teams that will compete in a season of video game matches during summer 2008. Earley won a qualifying game on Xbox 360 Live, which led him to be drafted in the first round and be deemed the fifth overall pick.
Purdue Exponent
Symposium presents variety of projects
Some Purdue students conducted research to save the lives of soldiers abroad, and some are helping inner city neighborhoods, while others are hoping to win gold at the Student Academy Awards in Hollywood.
The Colleges of Science, Agriculture, Engineering and Technology hosted the annual Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium. The symposium displayed the research of students throughout the university, including four computer graphic technology students who took this opportunity to produce their own animated short film.
Purdue Exponent
Racecars to be on display during first Motorsports on the Mall
Passersby will be able to get an up-close look at a variety of racecars at the inaugural Motorsports on the Mall event April 17.
The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Purdue Mall, rain or shine, and is being held in conjunction with activities surrounding Purdue's annual Grand Prix kart race, which is April 19.
University News Service
IRL car coming to campus
An Indianapolis Racing League car will be parked outside Knoy Hall the week of April 11-17. The car will be on display for students and others to look at and also will be used by students in Joseph Kmec's Fundamentals of Motorsports course (MET 486). Students will conduct various tests on the car, including weight tests, with special scales on loan from the Indiana Department of Transportation. Students taking Kmec's course also study vehicle aerodynamics, racing engine performance, vehicle dynamics, race data acquisition and analysis, composite materials, and other technical challenges facing the racing industry.
More than 30 employers to attend I-69 Corridor Job Fair in Anderson
The Purdue College of Technology at Anderson/Muncie is co-sponsoring a job fair April 16 in Anderson.
The second annual I-69 Corridor Job Fair will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at Mounds Mall, which is the other sponsor of the event.
University News Service
Students to launch eggs in the name of science
High school students from east-central Indiana will put their knowledge of science to use in the fifth annual Iron Egg Launch Design Competition on April 25 at the College of Technology location in Anderson.
The competition, sponsored by the Purdue College of Technology at Anderson/Muncie, will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Anderson University Flagship Center. In case of rain, the event will take place May 2.
University News Service
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