Purdue Industrial Engineering held the first-ever combined undergrad-graduate student Career Fair on September 12 in Grissom Hall’s Student Excellence Center. Twelve companies and over 300 students participated.

The recently-released 2017 U.S. News & World Report ranks Purdue Industrial Engineering as the #3 IE program in the nation.

Purdue IE is indeed making progress toward meeting its fundraising goals in the university-wide “Ever True” capital campaign. However, the school still has a ways to go before it achieves success.

Twenty-nine members of the Spring 2016 Purdue Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) board spent their summers gaining experience as interns in industrial engineering positions.

An article about Purdue IE Associate Professor Juan Wachs appeared last week in the major Argentinian newspaper La Nacion for his research in pioneering operating room technology.

Purdue IE Assistant Professor Vaneet Aggarwal and his collaborators have developed a novel caching framework with erasure code called functional caching, which uses erasure coded chunks in the cache.

A Purdue IE grad student is using industrial engineering, hydroponics and astronaut-like behavior to teach teens at a juvenile detention center about sustainable agriculture in urban areas.

Assistant Professor Joaquin Goñi and colleagues have received grants from the NIH and the CTSI.

Robert Kenley, an associate professor of engineering practice in industrial engineering, received a Fellows Award from the International Council on Systems Engineering. He was one of two researchers recognized in July for their "significant contributions to systems engineering."

Highlights of IE senior Kristen Kummen’s recent study abroad experience included the people she met and grew close to, sunshine every day, and the kindness of strangers who helped her while she was traveling.

From May 8-20, a senior Purdue IE student participated in a cross-disciplinary program in Europe. Emily Grimm, from Newburgh, IN, attended the 21st Century European Transportation Maymester study abroad program, visiting transportation centers in London, England; Paris, France; and Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich in Germany.

During the 2016 spring semester, IE senior design Capstone Projects saved money, improved processes and increased efficiency for participating companies - and gave great experience to the senior students involved.

The Office of Global Engineering Programs (GEP) and the College of Engineering schools and programs continue to expand the overseas reach of Purdue University. IE's Senior Academic Administrator, Patrick Brunese, is part of the committee making that happen.