Purdue University’s College of Engineering recognized faculty, lecturers and staff members for their outstanding dedication to teaching in an Aug. 24 Purdue Exponent advertisement.

A Purdue Research Team has developed the Intelligent Codesign Cloud Lab for Non-Equilibrium and Low-Dimensional Materials (ICoN-PCL), a cloud based lab receiving millions in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP).

Seven Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering alumni have been named to Purdue Engineering's 2026 38 by 38 class — more recipients than any other engineering discipline.

Prototype is able to adapt to needs of mission, acting as drifter, glider and thruster

Hosted by Texas A&M, this challenge invites students to develop their startup concepts into fruition. For Abdeljaber, his venture was BusFactor.

James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor Juan Wachs recently served as General Chair of the 2026 Computer Vision Conference (CVC) in Amsterdam, where he also delivered a keynote presentation titled Bridging the Algorithm Abyss: Surgical Intelligence, Computer Vision & AI in Medicine.

The Purdue MARS Lab, headed by Assistant Professor Yu She, along with its collaborators, had 10 papers accepted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). As one of the largest and most influential robotics research conferences worldwide, IROS 2026 had a paper acceptance rate of 36% in 2026, indicating a highly competitive selection process.

Carson Castle and Camden Kilroy, students in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, receive multiple honors for building an autonomous table tennis robot. It holds the capability to play matches against human players, control ball spin, keep score: all while having the flexibility to attach to various tennis tables.

Congratulations to Kamelia Sepanloo on being selected as a 2026 Trailblazers in Engineering (TBE) Fellow, an honor recognizing emerging engineers whose research demonstrates innovation, interdisciplinary leadership, and meaningful societal impact.

We are excited to share the latest news from the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering in our Fall Newsletter.

Hosted by the University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and Stanford, PhD student Myeongkyu Lee was selected with a full scholarship to attend the Rising Stars Workshop this past month.