[4] At this time the first Electrical Engineering building was located opposite of Stanley Coulter Hall on the site of the present-day Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry.

Railroad tracks came alongside the building to provide a berth for the Purdue University Interurban Test Car.

WBAA, Indiana's oldest surviving radio station, was started in Purdue ECE in 1922.

Purdue ECE played an important role in the early TV technology with Professor Roscoe George's many inventions including the first all-electronic television receiver.

[7] In September 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, and Senator Todd Young toured the microelectronic training facilities at the Birck Nanotechnology Center to promote domestic semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S as part of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.