The Ruth and Joel Spira Award
/This award recognizes Dr. Zhang “for outstanding contributions to the School of Mechanical Engineering for inspiring students and fostering excellence in commercial and defense production realization”. Cheers!
Member News
Jack Walsh Won Outstanding Juniors
/Our incoming undergraduate researcher, Jack Walsh, won the prestigious Frederick Morse Award for Outstanding Juniors, Congrats!
Caroline passed MS defense!
/Congratulations to Caroline for her smooth MS defense! We wish her the best for her bright future career at Cummins!
Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program
/Dr. Zhang was selected by Purdue to participate the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program. Cheers!
VIP Outstanding First-Year/Sophomore award
/Congrats Lexi for winning this award!
Frances and Michael won OUR Scholarship
/Frances and Michael was selected as the winner of OUR scholarship, congrats!
Yi-Hong passed his M.S. defense
/Congratulations for Yi-Hong’s successful defense!
Team CoE Staff Award
/Our Summer Projects Team was honored to win the College of Engineering 2020 Team CoE Staff Award of Excellence! Congratulations to my team member, Julia King, Todd Nelson, Jared Pike, Song Zhang, Greg Jensen, and Teddy Sergesketter!
Best oral presentation award
/Xiaowei won the Best Oral Presentation Award at iFOSA, Congrats!
Most download
/Our paper is the No. 1 on the list of Top Downloads of September for J. Opt. Soc. Am. A.
iFOSA Oct. 17-18, 2020
/iFOSA is an online Forum aims at providing an open platform to promote young scientists and graduate students by sharing their recent discoveries, innovations and findings; and to grow and thrive this entire community at large by providing FREE access to anyone who has an interest in 3D optical sensing and applications. Free pre-registration is required to attend the conference.
Keynote speech
/Dr. Zhang was invited to give a keynote talk at the International Conference on Sensing, Measurement, & Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence (October 15-17, 2020). I will be given virtually. https://icsmd2020.aconf.org/keynotes.html
Top downloads
/This issue has been officially published by JOSA A. Our paper “State-of-the-art active optical techniques for three-dimensional surface metrology: a review [Invited]” made the top downloads of this journal. This is an open-access paper that can be downloaded from: https://www.osapublishing.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?uri=josaa-37-9-B60
Successful Summer Team Project
/This is what my Purdue undergraduate team has accomplished this summer. These young boilermakers demonstrated that they can overcome all challenges by the COVID-19 pandemic and deliver outstanding work. I am very proud of their extraordinary accomplishment and hard work! Boiler up!
Associate Editor for Optics Express
/Dr. Zhang becomes one of the Associated Editors for Optics Express starting July 1, 2020. Optics Express is one of the top journals in optics.
University Faculty Scholar
/Dr. Zhang was recognized as the University Faculty Scholar, Cheers!
Our Success Story
/FTCoE wrote a nice story about our work in forensics. Forensic Science Center of Excellence ; NIJ.gov; ncjrs.gov
Brian's team won Malott Award
/Congrats Brian and his teammates to win Innovation Malott Award (1st place)! Well deserved!
Editor's Pick
/Professor Zhong’s paper highlighted as one of the only 3 papers picked by Editors of Optics Express. This issue published 132 journal articles. Congratulations!
https://www.osapublishing.org/OE/abstract.cfm?uri=OE-28-9-12609
Work in news
/The automation work we have done lately appeared in the public news release
