On April 12, the Purdue Industrial Engineering Graduate Student Organization (IE GSO) held a reception to honor new faculty member Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi as the first-ever recipient of the IE Outstanding Graduate Mentor award.

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The Purdue Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) helped host local 6th graders during a campus STEM tour on April 7. IIE students worked with the elementary students to make paper planes in an assembly line, then tested them to see which ones worked best to optimize processes.

On April 27, support Purdue IE and our IIE students during the upcoming #PurdueDayofGiving! And watch IE student Eren Bozbag star in the Day of Giving video.

On April 27, support Purdue IE and our IIE students during the upcoming #PurdueDayofGiving! And watch IE student Eren Bozbag star in the Day of Giving video.

Third-year graduate student Michelle Jahn received the 2016 Emily M. Wadsworth Graduate Mentoring Award on March 23.

Third-year graduate student Michelle Jahn received the 2016 Emily M. Wadsworth Graduate Mentoring Award on March 23.

IIE’s Society for Health Systems (SHS) has elected Ashley Benedict, systems redesign coordinator at VA Sunshine Healthcare Network, as its new president-elect.

Research led by Gary Cheng, associate professor of industrial engineering, is breaking new ground in nanomanufacturing. Central to his work is the use of a pulsing laser to induce a shockwave inside a multilayered film topped with a glass sheet. In the latest results, researchers showed how to create large patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets. The concept represents a potential manufacturing approach to inexpensively mass producing of plasmonic metamaterials for advanced technologies.

A multidisciplinary Purdue engineering team won third place on February 23 in the Gold Division of the 29th annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition. The team was led by mechanical engineering doctoral student Jeffrey Ackerman, and included the lead inventor, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Brad Duerstock, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Justin Seipel, and Purdue alumna Li Hwa Chong.

Associate Professor C. Robert Kenley has been elected as an International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Fellow.

Associate Professor Juan Wachs has received a Fulbright Scholar grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, as part of an exchange program between the governments of the U.S. and Argentina. His project is entitled “Using Attention Modeling and Analysis to Understand Gestures Interaction”.

A team of more than 50 Purdue engineering and technology students helped create the Visiting Our Solar System (VOSS) interactive exhibit at Purdue’s Discovery Park. Junior Anna Tatara was the only industrial engineering student on the team.

Congratulations to alumna Patti Poppe (BSIE 1989, MSIE 1991) on her recent promotion to President and CEO of CMS Energy, effective July 1, 2016.