November 6, 2015
IIE holds annual Fall Career Night
The IIE student group held its annual Fall Career Night on October 28.
News
November 3, 2015
IE PhD student paper named in HFES top 5
IE PhD student Michelle Jahn entered the User Experience (UX) Day Best Paper Competition at a national meeting and earned a spot among the top five best papers.
October 30, 2015
New IE associate professor awarded two NSF grants
Associate Professor Gesualdo Scutari was recently awarded two National Science Foundation grants. His projects are entitled “Communicating While Computing: Mobile Fog Computing Over Wireless Heterogeneous Networks” and “Parallel Online Algorithms for Large-Scale MRI”.
October 27, 2015
IE grad student uses Human Factors for walking therapies
IE PhD student Harsh Wardhan Aggarwal has been working on walking therapy for older adults and people with Parkinson’s disease (PD).
October 23, 2015
IE INFORMS wins Magna Cum Laude Student Chapter award
Purdue's INFORMS student chapter has been selected as a Magna Cum Laude winner of the INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award for 2015.
October 20, 2015
New IE professor awarded two Air Force Research Lab grants
Assistant Professor Vaneet Aggarwal received an Air Force Research Lab Summer Extension Grant to work on data completion algorithms.
October 16, 2015
McComb hosts NSF-funded workshop at Purdue
Dr. Sara McComb hosted a National Science Foundation-funded “Science of Organizations” workshop at Purdue on October 1-2.
October 15, 2015
Duerstock & team develop assistive wheelchair technology RoboDesk
A Purdue startup is commercializing an assistive wheelchair technology that could provide people with disabilities an efficient and easy-to-use method to more easily position and remove an iPad or other mobile device without being limited by a table or moving in and out of the chair. The company has recently developed its first prototype.
October 14, 2015
Tailgate at Grissom's de Bedout Piazza
Over 100 IE alumni and friends gathered on October 10 for a Tailgate Party before the Purdue v. Minnesota football game. The event took place in the newly-finished de Bedout Piazza at Grissom Hall.
October 12, 2015
Sun shines on Oct. 9 Grissom Hall Celebration
The sun came out for Industrial Engineering’s "A New Era at Grissom Hall" ceremony on an otherwise-cloudy October 9. IE alumni, faculty, staff and friends gathered at the new de Bedout Piazza behind Grissom Hall for the celebration event, along with local and state dignitaries.
October 2, 2015
All IE alumni invited to Oct. 9 Grissom Hall Celebration
The School of Industrial Engineering invites all Purdue IE alumni to the Grissom Hall Celebration on Friday, Oct. 9.
September 28, 2015
NASA's Bolden helps Purdue announce 'Systems Collaboratory'
NASA administrator Charles Bolden on Friday (Sept. 25) helped kick off the Purdue Systems Collaboratory aimed at integrating multidisciplinary teaching and research stressing the "convergence of knowledge" in problem solving.
September 25, 2015
Refurbished Grissom "pendant" rehung for celebration ceremony
The iconic Grissom Hall "pendant" was refurbished and rehung on September 22 - in time for the upcoming October 9 & 10 Grissom Hall Celebration.
September 15, 2015
Aggarwal awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation awarded a grant to Purdue University for support of the project entitled "CIF: Small: Collaborative Research: Communications with Energy Harvesting Nodes." The project is under the direction of Vaneet Aggarwal, IE Assistant Professor. This award started September 1, 2015 and ends August 31, 2018.
September 14, 2015
U.S. News & World Report ranks Purdue IE undergrad program #3 in nation
The Purdue School of Industrial Engineering moved up to the No. 3 spot in the latest undergraduate program rankings from the U.S. News & World Report released Wednesday, Sept. 9.
