At a dinner and awards ceremony on November 16, Purdue IE celebrated student scholarship recipients and honored Ferdinand Leimkuhler, Professor Emeritus and former Head of Purdue IE.
The Purdue Systems Collaboratory (PSC) held a collaborative luncheon on October 25. About 25 faculty members attended from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Purdue Libraries, and the Purdue Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Science.
Assistant Professor Susan Hunter and her co-author Benjamin McClosky were awarded Honorable Mention (2nd place) in the 2017 IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Operations Engineering & Analytics Best Applications Paper Award competition.
A team of Purdue IE students won third place in the 2017 Medicaid Data Challenge for their dashboard and three-minute presentation. They were the only student team to even place among the top three winners.