More Purdue IE students are studying abroad this semester than ever before.

On January 31 Purdue IE said farewell to Wayne Ewbank, IE Manufacturing Laboratory Coordinator for the past 27 years. He trained generations of IE students in manufacturing techniques.

Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected or shared in our digital society. Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) aims to inspire dialogue and empower individuals and companies to take action. For Data Privacy Day, two Purdue professors give security advice.

Now in its second year, a student-run consulting organization called Purdue Solutions continues to gain recognition on and off campus.

In Purdue IE’s “Alumni Spotlights” video series, WealthPoint Advisors’ Alex Perkins (BSIE 2009) talks about how Purdue IE gave him the foundation to ask the right questions for his career & current position.

When Ravi Talwar (MSIE ’69) was eight years old, he saw a high-speed industrial clothing mill in operation. The scene sparked a curiosity for how machines and systems work and foreshadowed a lifelong career spent making them work better. Now an entrepreneur, Talwar shares both his time and resources with Purdue Engineering students, including the recent donation of $500,000 to a ”Rising Star“ professorship in Industrial Engineering by Talwar and his wife, Eleanor.

New projections show climate change could add an average of about 5 percent to Indiana’s commercial energy consumption by the year 2100, while reducing residential energy use an average of 3.5 percent. A research team led by Purdue IE’s Roshanak Nateghi developed a “multi-paradigm” framework to compare energy consumption projections.

Uday V. Shanbhag, Gary and Sheila Chaired Professor at Pennsylvania State University, gave a Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering Distinguished Lecture on November 8.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Procter & Gamble’s Craig Brissman (BSIE 2012) talks about how Purdue IE prepared him well for his career.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Deloitte’s Eren Bozbag (BSIE 2017) tells how Purdue Industrial Engineering gave him opportunities beyond the classroom and prepared him well for his career.

Olaf Sporns, a distinguished professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, gave a Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering Distinguished Lecture and visited the CONNplexity Lab.

Dr. Juan Pablo Wachs and the ISAT Lab welcomed Mr. Atilio Berardi, Consul General of Argentina, and his team last week during a visit to Purdue University.

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Dr. Vincent Duffy is featured in the latest Purdue Journal of Service-Learning & International Engagement.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, SeroColombia’s Rodrigo Londono (BSIE 2003) talks about how Purdue IE prepared him well for his career as an entrepreneur.