"An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Real-time Workload Measurement" has been selected as the winner of the HFES 2021 Human Factors Prize.
The 2021 Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize (‘Ekeberg Prize’) was awarded to a US-Japanese team led by Dr Jason M. Davis of the Center for Materials Processing and Tribology at Purdue University, IN, USA, for its paper “Cutting of tantalum: Why it is so difficult and what can be done about it” published in the journal International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture.
The School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University seeks to attract exceptional candidates for a tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor position in production planning and control, focusing on advancing the frontiers of core areas, such as facilities location, layout design, transportation and logistics, supply chain, scheduling, inventory, and material handling, with novel applications in manufacturing and service systems.
Recent MSIE graduate, Juan Antonio Barragan, and Daniela Chanci Arrubla won the RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award at IEEE's RO-MAN 2021 for their work, titled "SACHETS: Semi-Autonomous Cognitive Hybrid Emergency Teleoperated Suction".
The pandemic has brought much societal evaluation, especially health care. Professor Denny Yu's team spoke with ten nurses about their patient observations and how the pandemic has changed their decision making.