If you are overweight, losing weight can help lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol. This is especially important for people with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that includes high triglyceride levels, low HDL (good) cholesterol levels, and being overweight with a large waist measurement (more than 40 inches for men and more than 35 inches for women).
Purdue Engineering National Rankings â 2016. The College of Engineering moved up in the rankings to #6, tied with Georgia Tech, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. ABE has now been ranked #1 for the seventh consecutive year. Graduate Program National Rankings.
Location. Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and is easily accessible from interstate highway I-65. West Lafayette is 100 km (65 miles) north of Indianapolis and 190 km (120 miles) south of Chicago. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is located on Northwestern Avenue at the northern corner of Purdue Mall and connected by an aerial walkway to the Materials and Electrical Engineering Building. Travel Directions.