Research and Innovation
To meet today’s dynamic challenges, Purdue IE research is expanding beyond our traditional boundaries. Our human factors efforts are now developing a deeper understanding of cognition and decision making. Operations research is now improving computational IE and encompassing information engineering. Purdue IE manufacturing is now investigating the interplay between next-generation products and services. And production systems research is now focusing on complex systems and networks and systems-of-systems challenges.
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Introducing Dr. Gary Cheng
Research led by Dr. Cheng, associate professor of industrial engineering, is breaking new ground in nanomanufacturing. Central to his work is the use of a pulsing laser to induce a shockwave inside a multilayered film topped with a glass sheet. In the latest results, researchers showed how to create large patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets. The concept represents a potential manufacturing approach to inexpensive mass production of plasmonic metamaterials for advanced technologies.