Dr. Roshi Nateghi, associate professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University, has been elected to the position of Councilor for the Society for Risk Analysis. Congratulations, Dr. Nateghi, and thank you for your leadership and service for your field.

In this episode of "Problem Solved," Angie Jackman, an industrial engineer with NASA and project manager for the Mars Ascent Vehicle mission at the Marshall Space Flight Center, discusses her career and the role of industrial and systems engineers at the space agency with IISE member and Purdue University Industrial Engineering professor Barrett Caldwell.

Edgar Rojas-Munoz's paper entitled "The AI-Medic: An Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery" was named Best Paper Award. It was submitted to the 14th Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions workshop (AE-CAI), part of the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).

As staff sort through the last of the remnants moved out of MGL prior to demolition, Marc Williams, IE Senior Laboratory Coordinator, found this article about the lab's namesake, Michael Golden, from Purdue Today in 1985.

Professor Juan Wachs is one of three General Chairs for the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.

COVID-19 has spotlighted the importance of supply chain - especially accentuating the need for more resilience in the chain. You'd be hard-pressed to hear many people in the general population talking about supply chain until these past few months.

Congratulations to Dr. Pitts' Next-generation Human-systems and Cognitive Engineering (NHanCE) Lab for the strong thought leadership demonstrated at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting.

The Indianapolis Business Journal recently named Purdue University Minority Engineering Program (MEP) director Virginia Booth Womack to its 2020 Women of Influence list.



Womack (BSIE ’91, BA Psychology ’92) is a nationally-recognized engineering educator, commended for her professional experience, leadership, vision, community service & mentorship. In 1978 she was the first female national chair of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), then later helped found Purdue NSBE & has led MEP in achieving significant milestones for underrepresented minority students.

Congratulations, Virginia!

The Indiana Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at Purdue University, has received a $2.8 million grant from NASA to support student and faculty learning projects.

At this fall's Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting Daniela Chanci Arrubla was honored with a Best Paper Designation from the society at the 2020 International meeting.

Dr. Ramses Martinez, Purdue IE and BME assistant professor, writes a post for the College of Engineering on the next generation of monitors and their relevance to personalized medicine.

Senior Devin Schroder joins Coach Tony Ersland and the guys to talk about his senior season, how much he has grown as a wrestler and a student while at Purdue and his academic journey as an industrial engineering.

Dr. Toyya Pujol joins the School of Industrial Engineering and the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University as an assistant professor. Her research focuses on analytics and machine learning applied to health data particularly in health disparities.

Ruth and Elliott Sigal (BSIE 1973, MSIE 1973, PhD 1977) established a Rising Star Professorship in Industrial Engineering with a focus on improving healthcare delivery through a partnership with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.

Industrial Engineering student, Emmalee Severson, has been awarded a top College of Engineering honor for her commitment to community service and leadership.