From May 8-20, a senior Purdue IE student participated in a cross-disciplinary program in Europe. Emily Grimm, from Newburgh, IN, attended the 21st Century European Transportation Maymester study abroad program, visiting transportation centers in London, England; Paris, France; and Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich in Germany.

During the 2016 spring semester, IE senior design Capstone Projects saved money, improved processes and increased efficiency for participating companies - and gave great experience to the senior students involved.

The Office of Global Engineering Programs (GEP) and the College of Engineering schools and programs continue to expand the overseas reach of Purdue University. IE's Senior Academic Administrator, Patrick Brunese, is part of the committee making that happen.

Assistant Professor Harsha Honnappa has been awarded an NSF grant for his project “Transitory Stochastic Models: Analysis and Optimization”. Honnappa is the Principal Investigator. The grant comes from NSF’s Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) division and will run thru July 2019.

Two IE alumni have been selected as 2016 Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows. As fellows, Stephanie Biery (BSIE 1993) and Betsy Lange (BSIE 1985) will begin master’s degree programs this year to become STEM teachers in high-need Indiana secondary schools.

Dr. Harsha Honnappa gave the plenary talk at this week’s European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT).

Four undergraduate IE students spent the first six months of 2016 studying in other countries as part of the IE Study Abroad program.

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Purdue IE summer interns at Fiat-Chrysler Automotive-Kokomo helped their community by participating in FCA’s recent Community Action Days.

As the University prepares to welcome its largest incoming class since 2008, Shrivallabh (Shri) Khadilkar has been working hard behind the scenes to help ensure newly admitted students have a smooth and positive experience as they transition to college.

Prof. Yuehwern Yih was recently appointed as the Associate Director of Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.

On May 5, Assistant Professor Wenzhuo Wu received this year’s Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his research on 2D piezoelectric semiconductors for developing a new class of electronics that can be controlled by mechanical signals.
This award will run for one year.

IE’s Associate Professor of Engineering Practice Bradley Duerstock was interviewed for two recent articles. One was on disability awareness for the April 7 issue of Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, and the other was about his “RoboDesk” invention for the May 19 issue of All Tech Considered.