News - School of Industrial Engineering

June 29, 2017

Alum Spotlight: Baback Vaziri

In a new Purdue IE video series, “Alumni Spotlights”, Dr. Baback Vaziri discusses earning his PhD at Purdue and how it prepared him to become a faculty member at the James Madison University College of Business.

June 28, 2017

Alum Spotlight: Tom Benes

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Forum Purchasing President and CEO Tom Benes talks about earning his BSIE (1975) and MSIE (1976) degrees at Purdue, and how they’ve helped him throughout his career.

June 27, 2017

Maymester in Pamplona

Eight undergrads, one grad student, and IE faculty and staff members spent three weeks in northern Spain last month for the first-ever IE Pamplona Maymester.

June 22, 2017

Deshmukh part of multidisciplinary team

Dr. Abhi Deshmukh, James J. Solberg Head & Professor of Industrial Engineering, joins a multidisciplinary team of 12 other Purdue professors to develop a new approach for next-generation manufacturing.

June 20, 2017

Orr wins IISE Barany award

Anthony Orr (BSIE 2017) received a national award at the recent 2017 Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

June 15, 2017

Grad students create robotics projects

Students presented an array of creative final projects in Asst. Prof. Ramses Martinez's graduate-level “Electromechanical Robotic Systems” course (IE 590).

June 13, 2017

Wu Group lignin research published

APL Materials recently published the Wu Group's research on a lignin biopolymer based energy harvesting device in a paper entitled “Lignin biopolymer based triboelectric nanogenerators”.

June 9, 2017

Alum Spotlight: Robert D. Shadley

In a new Purdue IE video series, “Alumni Spotlights”, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. (ret.) Robert D. Shadley talks about earning his BSIE (1965) and MSIE (1966) degrees at Purdue, and how they’ve helped him throughout his career.

June 8, 2017

Zhou awarded IRIACV Best Student Paper

PhD student Tian Zhou has won a Best Student Paper award for a paper he co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Juan Wachs.

June 6, 2017

Purdue students help create Honor Pledge

A 15-member student team created a Purdue Honor Pledge this past year. The team hopes the pledge will encourage a culture of academic integrity.

June 1, 2017

New 3D/CAD course offered

Purdue IE will offer a new CAD-modeling/3D printing course this fall, called "Imagine, Model, and Make" (IE 472).

May 30, 2017

Winners of 2017 "Beautify Grissom" art contest

Three undergrad IE students competed in the 2017 “Beautify Grissom” painting competition. Launched by the Purdue chapter of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) in 2013, students compete yearly by painting what IE means to them.

May 25, 2017

Purdue IISE wins national video contest again

The Purdue chapter of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) has won a national video contest - for the second year in a row.

May 23, 2017

Rosenthal speaks at 2017 Pritsker Lecture

Dr. Jeffrey Rosenthal, Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto, Canada, spoke at the 2017 Alan B. Pritsker Distinguished Lecture Series on Apr. 27. His topic was “The Magic of Monte Carlo”.

May 18, 2017

IE Commencement Reception held May 12

On May 12, the School of Industrial Engineering held a Commencement Reception for IE students graduating over the weekend.