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April 20, 2026
2026 Outstanding Industrial Engineer
Andy Burke
April 20, 2026
2026 Outstanding Industrial Engineer
Tony Orr
April 20, 2026
2026 Outstanding Industrial Engineer
Quentin Roach
April 20, 2026
2026 Outstanding Industrial Engineer
Jim Durkin
April 20, 2026
2026 Outstanding Industrial Engineer
Virginia Shepardson Serna
April 16, 2026
Faculty and Graduate Students Honored at College Awards Luncheon
The Purdue University Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering proudly recognizes its 2025–26 Graduate Education Award recipients, who were honored at the Purdue University College of Engineering award luncheon.
April 15, 2026
Jocelyn Erickson and Team win 1st in Purdue Soybean Innovation Competition
Purdue Team designs 1st ever 95% soy-based pressure sensitive tape, a sustainable alternative for normal adhesives.
April 2, 2026
PhD Student Ching-Yu Cheng Receives Best Poster Award
For his poster titled "Multimodal Psychophysiological Analysis for Team Situation Awareness in Simulated Construction Environments", Cheng was awarded 1st Place at a recent conference.
March 20, 2026
Tony Orr named Outstanding Young Alumni
Tony Orr (BS IE '17), has received the Purdue Outstanding Young Alumni Award. This esteemed distinction is given to those who radiate the Boilermaker spirit, even beyond their time on campus.
March 16, 2026
‘Privacy by design’: Purdue tech protects against identity leaking during AI photo editing
Patent-pending system reduces AI’s ability to detect attributes like eye color, facial hair
February 17, 2026
National Science Foundation Grant Awarded to Assistant Professor Yu She
In coordination with the US National Science Foundation, the Advancing Innovations for Empowering NextGen AGriculturE (AI-ENGAGE) initiative recently announced its six international research award recipients, collectively receiving $2.4 million to support artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
February 5, 2026
Miaolan Xie published in the Journal of Optimization and Theory Applications
New Optimization Method Enables Reliable Learning Without Controlled Randomness
January 27, 2026
Purdue’s Online Industrial Engineering Master’s Ranked #1 Again
In the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings, Purdue University’s online Master’s in Industrial Engineering continued its leadership position as the No. 1 program in the nation.
January 20, 2026
Faculty and Students Published in Nature Communications
A recent publication by Assistant Professor Yu She, James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering,
Juan Wachs, and students Zhixian Hu and Yi Royce Cheng introduces a new bio-inspired robotic manipulator designed to handle fragile organisms and delicate objects safely.
Juan Wachs, and students Zhixian Hu and Yi Royce Cheng introduces a new bio-inspired robotic manipulator designed to handle fragile organisms and delicate objects safely.
