The School of Industrial Engineering held a Commencement Reception on December 18 for IE graduates.

IE Academic Advisor Elizabeth Allum was recognized for excellent service to the Purdue University College of Engineering at the 2015 Engineering Staff Awards of Excellence. She was a finalist for the New Employee Award.

IE Assistant Professor Joaquín Goñi was featured in a November issue of his hometown newspaper, Diario de Navarra, for starting his position at Purdue University this fall.

Five Purdue students and one staff advisor traveled to Florida this week to present a poster at the 27th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. The forum was hosted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Purdue IE graduate students Amanda Hobbs and Katie Ernst attended along with IE academic advisor Elizabeth Allum and Purdue Nursing students Daisy Feldman, Meghan Cowden, and Rachell Terrell.

By the end of her third semester at Purdue, Industrial Engineering (IE) sophomore Pamela Yuan traveled overseas twice, using her IE skills and knowledge in a rural Cameroonian village and also at a United Nations meeting in Italy.

Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) recognized IE faculty member Gary Cheng for a patent at its 11th annual Inventors Recognition Reception.

Purdue University’s Student Division of International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) sponsored student participation at the INCOSE Great Lakes Regional Conference (GLRC) conference in Cleveland, OH, Oct. 23-25.

First-year IE PhD student graduate student Amanda Hobbs (McComb group) has been awarded the 2015 David Calkins Memorial Scholarship from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

GE-Purdue PRIAM (Partnership in Research & Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing) hosted “GE Manufacturing Days” last week on campus.

The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) hosted a rematch soccer game of students vs. faculty/staff on November 11 in the TREC.

Dr. Prasoon Diwakar, post-doctoral research associate from Purdue University, was announced as the winner in the CappSci Inventors Program to develop his "Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Detector”. He will be developing his innovation through the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science for a year. The amount of the award is $100,000 to fund his work, mentorship and support.

IE Assistant Professor Joaquín Goñi participated in the first IU Imaging Research Facility NeuroImaging Hackathon on Nov. 6 & 7 in Bloomington, IN.

Dr. Hany Abdel-Khalik was the co-author for the Best Paper/Presentation in the Reactor Physics Division (RPD) for the ANS 2015 Annual Meeting. Many excellent papers were submitted, and many excellent presentations were given, and it was determined through the ANS review and judging process that this paper was particularly good and deserving of this award of distinction.

Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) recognized IE Professor Yuehwern Yih for a patent at its 11th annual Inventors Recognition Reception on Nov. 3 at Purdue Research Park.