Faculty Profiles

  • October 24, 2024

    Women in Steel Recognition

    PNW NIPSCO Distinguished Professor of Engineering Simulation Chenn Zhou was recently featured as a "trailblazing woman" by the industry for the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST).

  • July 26, 2024

    Industrious: Why Trailblazer Chenn Zhou Isn’t Worried About AI Disruption in Steel Manufacturing

    Chenn Zhou, Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) founding director and NIPSCO Distinguished Professor of Engineering Simulation at PNW, recently sat down for a Q&A interview with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.

  • April 26, 2023

    Lionhearted Leaders: Nicolae Tarfulea

    Professor Nicolae Tarfulea dives into his methods on being an effective instructor as well as his goals inside the classroom.

  • December 5, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Khair Al Shamaileh

    Khair Al Shamaileh inspires his students to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their daily lives.

  • October 24, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Wubeshet Woldemariam

    Wubeshet Woldemariam's research on smart cities focuses on developing useful decision-making frameworks and tools to address transportation problems and realize sustainable and equitable transportation.

  • June 13, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Meden Isaac-Lam

    Meden Isaac-Lam, associate professor of Chemistry, sees student success as her main classroom goal.

  • April 12, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Tom Liu

    Yun (Tom) Liu, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Sciences, feels that students better understand math and physics when they make real-world connections to the subject matter.

  • March 4, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Curtis Creighton

    If you take a class with Curtis Creighton, professor of Biological Sciences in the College of Engineering and Sciences, you may have the chance to see a unique face mask fashion choice. In his mask collection Creighton has one with an image of the American Burying Beetle.

  • February 17, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Shuhui (Grace) Yang

    Shuhui (Grace) Yang, professor of Computer Science and chair of Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Department of Computer Science, tries to open many doors for her students to participate in different areas of research.

  • January 21, 2022

    Lionhearted Leaders: Quamar Niyaz

    Quamar Niyaz, assistant professor of Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering and Sciences, is excited to teach in what he feels is a fast-growing and crucial area of tech education: cybersecurity.