What’s wrong with engineering/technology education in our nation
March 27, 2012, 3 Comments

Share Shown below is the text of a presentation I made on Friday, March 23, in Richmond, Ind. The College of Technology ...

International Women’s Day and the College of Technology
March 4, 2012, No Comments

Share In the College of Technology we have made “good” progress over the last few years with increasing the ...

True Innovation and Bell Labs
February 27, 2012, 1 Comment

Share I just read an article in the New York Times titled “True Innovation“. The article is a brief history ...

New challenges create opportunities
November 11, 2011, No Comments

Share There is a lot of talk these days about the shortage of engineers in this country and the lack of interest in gene ...

What is a technologist?
November 1, 2011, 1 Comment

Share This is another excerpt from a document I created when I interviewed for the position of Dean of the College of Te ...

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’ ...

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 ...