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Purdue Electrical Laboratory, c. 1892 1904 Panorama of Purdue campus with Electrical Laboratory. In 1901, Telephone Engineering became part of ECE to accommodate the urgent need for engineers who understood how to expand telephone systems from city to city. WBAA, Indiana's oldest surviving radio station, was started in Purdue ECE in 1922.
The Purdue Research Parks are a network of four research parks located in Indiana, United States.The 725-acre (2.93 km 2) flagship West Lafayette park is located less than 2 miles (3 km) north of Purdue University's West Lafayette campus, and is the largest university-affiliated research park in the United States.
John W. Sutherland was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, to Bill and Polly Sutherland.He has a younger brother (Michael) and sister (Nancy). His early years were spent in Arvada, Colorado – the family moved to the Chicago area in 1967.
Discovery Park is a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) multidisciplinary research park located in Purdue University's West Lafayette campus in the U.S. state of Indiana. Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, an energy and resources industry executive who also spent a decade as a top scientist and administrator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, serves as Discovery Park's Vice President.
SEAS technology resulted from over ten years of research at Purdue University, funded by the Department of Defense, several Fortune 500 companies, the National Science Foundation, the Century Fund of the state of Indiana, and the Office of Naval Research. Originally, SEAS was developed to help Fortune 500 companies with strategic planning.
Each multipurpose science laboratory possesses a number of core capabilities and facilities that enable a wide range of multidisciplinary research. Each of the single program science laboratories focuses its research on fundamental research in a particular field of physical science.
Purdue's first Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering was awarded to R. L. Duncan in 1950 for his work with Professor Maurice Zucrow on the performance of gas turbines. [4] The school's present name was adopted in 1973. [5] Purdue students have built and restored several aircraft as part of the program.
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. [7] The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture; [8] the first classes were held on September 16, 1874.