This past summer, 3 teams representing the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering advanced to the next round of the ShahLab.AI competition.

Yuehwern Yih, Tompkins Distinguished Professor in Purdue University's Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, has been selected as a 2026 Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). She is one of 12 leaders named to this year's class.

The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering is currently seeking to fill multiple faculty roles.

As we prepare to send more people and hardware into space, there is a growing desire to establish standards between members in the space industry. Professor Caldwell discusses how Industrial Engineering aids in that preparation.

PhD student Claire Woo and Young-Jun Son, the James J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor of Industrial Engineering, received the Best Poster Award in the “Infrastructure, Mobility & Robots” poster session at the 39th U.S.–Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2026).

Wenzhuo Wu and his research team have developed a form of self-powered wearable triboelectric nanogenerators to be used in monitoring cardiovascular health.

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.

For the fourth consecutive year, a faculty member from Purdue University’s Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering has been selected to participate in one of the nation’s premier gatherings of emerging engineering leaders.

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.