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During the week of Oct 28th – Nov 1st, the 63rd International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) was held in Seattle, WA. A diverse range of professionals and students, including certified ergonomists, academics, practitioners, and consultants attended the conference.

Three HEAL graduate students presented their research at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 63rd International Annual Meeting from October 28 – November 1, 2019 in Seattle, Washington.

Jackie Cha, was awarded the HFES Student Member with Honors, the HFE WOMAN Rising Star Award, and the HFES Training Technical Group Student Grant Award.

Collaborative, multi-institute research is helping intelligent machines to adapt to a person’s skill level.

Dr. James A. Tompkins (BSIE 1969, MSIE 1970, PhD 1972) created the Tompkins Professorship because he wanted to give something tangible back to the Purdue School of Industrial Engineering.

The Tribology & Lubrication journal interviewed Dr. C. Richard Liu about his research on the root mechanism affecting machined surface integrity.

Professor Shimon Nof, two Purdue IE graduate students and an IE alum gave five presentations at the International Conference on Production Research Manufacturing Innovation (ICPR).

A rapidly growing global population in the midst of a changing climate had led to serious sustainability issues and choices surrounding water, food and energy. These stresses and the policy responses will vary by locality, but they will have global repercussions that will ultimately affect the success of those choices.

John Beering (BSIE 1992) was named president of United Access, a provider of accessible vehicles and other products.

Purdue IE's Mark Lehto, professor of industrial engineering, collaborated on a multi-disciplinary study revisiting tourism as a personal health and wellness resource.

In Purdue IE’s “Alumni Spotlights” video series, alumna Terrie McComb (BSIE 1983) talks about how Purdue IE prepared her well academically and practically for her managerial position at ITW.

Purdue University on Tuesday (Sept. 10) announced a $40 million Lilly Endowment grant to Purdue Research Foundation to help create Purdue’s Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex, a project designed to meet the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and math graduates ready to contribute to what is being called the fourth industrial revolution: Industry 4.0.

Purdue IE‘s undergraduate program kept its No. 3 spot among Industrial/Manufacturing engineering undergraduate programs in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings.

An IE undergraduate researcher presented a poster at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 25.

An IE professor and grad student returned to Uganda for the third phase of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project to help save the lives of Ugandan mothers.