More teaching…less research?
October 18, 2011, 4 Comments

Share About a week ago I returned from our fall break and looked through the mail I had received while away from campus. ...

Scholarship reception remarks
October 10, 2011, No Comments

Share I thought I would share the remarks I made at the College of Technology’s Scholarship Reception that was held on ...

Steve Jobs; an innovator we can aspire to
October 6, 2011, No Comments

Share I was saddened to hear of the death of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer. Steve had an enormous positive i ...

Solar Decathlon
October 6, 2011, No Comments

Share Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Washington, DC for a series of meetings but also to see Purdue’ ...

Preparing the 21st Century Technologist
September 21, 2011, 1 Comment

Share My next few blogs will be excerpts from a document I created when I interviewed for the position of Dean of the Co ...

Diversity in the College of Technology
September 11, 2011, 1 Comment

Share A few days ago a writer from the campus newspaper, The Exponent, contacted me about an article she was going to wr ...

Purdue’s Common Reading
August 24, 2011, 5 Comments

Share I just finished reading this year’s common reading selection for Purdue’s incoming first year students. The tr ...

Good to Great in Social Organizations
August 17, 2011, 2 Comments

Share As many of you know, I am using the tag line “Good to Great” to describe our efforts to transform the College ...

Alumni Day at the Zoo
July 25, 2011, No Comments

Share Alumni Day at the Zoo I had a really good meeting last week with the Alumni Board for the College of Technology. T ...

The Startup of You
July 20, 2011, No Comments

Share Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece in a recent edition of the New York Times titled, “The Start-up of Yo ...