Three students in the School of Industrial Engineering were part of the winning Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Mayark Garg, Carlos Hinojosa and Javier Garcia are members of the Purdue Society for Professional Engineers that placed 1st overall at the Regional Competition. The team also took home the Peoples Choice Award.

Professor Frank Durso
Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor Thomas Kurfess,Professor and BMW Chair of Manufacturing
Clemson University

We focus on our graduate students and their activities in the School of Industrial Engineering. This month the spotlight is on Ashwin Varma Anjeri.

We focus on our graduate students and their activities in the School of Industrial Engineering. This month the spotlight is on Neil Bochenek.

Dadi Xing, a second year Ph.D. student in the School of Industrial Engineering, won the Best Poster Award (second place) of QSR at INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting (Nov 13-16, Charlotte, NC). Dadi is advised by Professor Hong Wan and co-advised by Professor Michael Zhu of the Department of Statistics at Purdue.

We are extremely sad to announce that Dr. James W. Barany, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering, passed away Monday night, November 7, 2011 at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital in Lafayette, Indiana. With his passing, the School of Industrial Engineering, the College of Engineering, and Purdue University have lost one of the most respected and beloved members of our family. Seemingly from the day he arrived at Purdue in 1958 through the last seven decades, Dr. Barany has been the heart and soul of Purdue IE and he will be sorely missed.

Two IE seniors, Mayank Garg and Daniel Huerta, received the 2011 SIGM Dean's Award last month. The award was given to the top few students from a participant pool of 125.