A team of more than 50 Purdue engineering and technology students helped create the Visiting Our Solar System (VOSS) interactive exhibit at Purdue’s Discovery Park. Junior Anna Tatara was the only industrial engineering student on the team.

Congratulations to alumna Patti Poppe (BSIE 1989, MSIE 1991) on her recent promotion to President and CEO of CMS Energy, effective July 1, 2016.

This semester, about 15 IE undergrads are interning with Tesla Motors, United Airlines, Disney, and other companies.

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”.

Associate Professor Aldo Scutari has received several awards and grants in the past few months.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Assistant Professor Susan Hunter has received a CAREER award grant from NSF.

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.