February 19, 2016
A sweet ride at Tesla
This semester, about 15 IE undergrads are interning with Tesla Motors, United Airlines, Disney, and other companies.
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February 16, 2016
Seattle Times cites Nateghi article
The Seattle Times recently quoted Assistant Professor Roshanak Nateghi’s article “Critical Assessment of the Foundations of Power Transmission and Distribution Reliability Metrics and Standards”.
February 12, 2016
Scutari receives awards
Associate Professor Aldo Scutari has received several awards and grants in the past few months.
February 9, 2016
IE Study Abroad program
Nine IE students are studying abroad this semester in places as diverse as Sweden, Colombia, Spain, Australia and China, and eight more will study abroad on various short-term Spring Break programs.
February 5, 2016
IE senior competes with Purdue Hyperloop Team at TAMU
A student team from Purdue University competed in the inaugural SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, Jan. 29-30. Senior IE student Adrienne Lavelle participated. Purdue’s team was one of over 120 teams from 27 countries and 20 U.S. states.
February 2, 2016
Student manufacturing processes videos on YouTube
Assistant Professor Ramses Martinez came up with a novel way for students to learn about manufacturing processes. For his IE 370 Manufacturing Processes class, Martinez assigned students to learn new concepts and explain them to fellow students – by video. Martinez posts the videos on a YouTube channel.
January 29, 2016
Wachs' telementoring research published in Surgery
Associate Professor Juan Wachs, with a team of Purdue University and Indiana University School of Medicine researchers, recently published a journal paper entitled "Medical telementoring using an augmented reality transparent display" in the journal Surgery.
January 26, 2016
IE undergrad internships offer exciting opportunities
IE undergrads not only get a great education and do undergraduate research, but have opportunities to do real-world internships in areas they’re interested in.
January 22, 2016
Caldwell named as Jefferson Science Fellow
Professor Barrett S. Caldwell has been named to the 2016-2017 class of Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF), an initiative of the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State.
January 19, 2016
IE alum uses optimal decision-making under uncertainty to fight cancer
Arka Roy (PhD 2015, IE) always wanted to be a medical doctor, but he was never too excited about medicine. Instead, he fell in love with mathematics.
January 15, 2016
Systems, Decisions, and Change and the IE Profession (IE 49000)
During the first day of a new IE course held this week, undergraduate students split into small groups to develop their “elevator pitches” with each other and the instructors, and to begin getting to know each other.
January 12, 2016
Hunter receives NSF CAREER award
Assistant Professor Susan Hunter has received a CAREER award grant from NSF.
January 8, 2016
Purdue IE PhD student’s research is “out of this world”
For eight months, a Purdue University industrial engineering PhD student lived in a domed habitat on a volcanic landscape in Hawaii mimicking life on a Martian outpost. Jocelyn Dunn participated in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) Mission 3 with five other “crew members” from Oct. 15, 2014 – June 12, 2015.
January 5, 2016
Congratulations to IE Alumni
The School of Industrial Engineering held a Commencement Reception on December 18 for IE graduates.
December 22, 2015
Duerstock's Prehensile Technologies receives NSF grant
A Purdue IE professor's startup has received federal funding to further develop an assistive wheelchair technology that allows power wheelchair users an efficient and easy-to-use method to more easily position and remove an iPad and other mobile devices.