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.

On June 15, Purdue University Press will publish Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom. Written by George Leopold, the book chronicles the life of the late Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Purdue's first astronaut and one of the three astronauts killed in the January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 launch pad fire. Purdue IE’s home, Grissom Hall, is named for him.

Associate Professor Seokcheon Lee and PhD student Mohammad Moshref-Javadi received the 2016 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE, formerly IIE) Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC) Best Track Paper in the Logistics and Supply Chain Track. Their winning paper is entitled “Formulations and Valid Inequalities for Minimum Latency Problem with Split Delivery”.

Three IE faculty and staff members were given special awards at the April 21 Purdue IE Dinner & Awards Ceremony.

With today‘s technology and other advances, a manned mission to Mars is not outside the realm of possibilities for NASA. But what would it be like? Jocelyn Dunn, a Purdue doctoral student in industrial engineering, describes this adventure in a new “Boiler Bytes” video.

The Purdue Systems Collaboratory has formalized a partnership with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). AAE Professor William Crossley, member of the Purdue Systems Collaboratory leadership team, recently joined Professor Paulien Herder of TU Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) in a ceremonial signing of a letter of intent that will foster cooperation in systems education and research between Purdue and TU Delft.

Three industrial engineering students were recognized with the MIT Supply Chain Excellence Award on April 29. Graduating senior Jennifer Reagin received the award, and graduating seniors Jon Harrell and Stephen Murray received honorable mentions.