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PhD student Bill Bihlman received the 2019 Stevens Doctoral Award from the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, IE Professor Barrett S. Caldwell reflected on the lessons learned and how the event inspired him personally.

Often in the case of a disaster, there are too few resources available to the community. A new algorithm analyzes individuals' tweets to better understand how they respond to crises, offering a new way to inform decisions on disaster management.

The Purdue University chapter of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) received the national organization’s Gold Award – for the 20th time.

In Purdue IE’s “Alumni Spotlights” video series, alumna Lane Konkel (BSIE 2013) talks about how Purdue IE prepared her well for her exciting and varied career with GE Healthcare.

Two Purdue IE staff are gaining professional development experience by participating in the second Purdue Engineering Staff Leadership Academy (PESLA) cohort.

Two NHanCE Lab graduate students presented papers at the recent USDOT Center for Connected & Automated Transportation (CCAT) 1st Annual Conference on Next-generation Transport Systems.

Srinivasan Chandrasekar, professor of industrial engineering, received the 2019 Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal at the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Annual Manufacturing Science & Engineering Conference. The meeting took place at Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA, on June 13, 2019.

Third-year PhD student Sungbum Jun (Distributed Control Lab) presented a paper at the annual IISE Conference.

Sharing a streaming video or watching the big game on a single electronic device can lead to a big fight: whose data plan is going to be used up for the event? Purdue University researchers have come up with technology that could open a new door for video streaming.

Researchers make graphene tunable, opening up its band gap to a record 2.1 electron volts

On June 20, the U.S. Senate confirmed entrepreneur and IE alum Keith Krach as the new Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment. Krach graduated from Purdue with a BSIE in 1979 and was awarded an Honorary IE Doctorate in 2018.

Crain's Detroit Business magazine named IE alumna Tricia Ruby (BSIE, 1994) to its 2019 Notable Women in STEM group.

The Annual Reviews in Control journal published an article by Prof. Shimon Nof and others on automation modeling and systems architecting.