|  | Robert S. Dittus(BSIE 1973) 
      
      
              Outstanding Industrial Engineer
      
      (2005)
     Werthan Distinguished Professor of Medicine Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine Vanderbilt Medical Center "The education and training I received in industrial engineering at Purdue provided me with a point of view, a paradigm, strategies and techniques to systematically examine problems at a micro and macro level and to design, implement and evaluate interdisciplinary solutions widely applicable to many areas of focus, including healthcare." | 
