The Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering hosted an Awards Dinner and Ceremony on November 10. Faculty, staff, students, alumni, donors, and members of the IE Advisory Board attended the dinner in the Buchanan Room of the Ross-Ade Pavilion.

The Purdue Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Professional Development Board planned four workshops to benefit IE students this semester. The fourth and final workshop will be held tonight (Nov. 17) at 7:45 PM in MSEE B102, on "Mannerisms".

Associate Professor Steven Landry and former PhD student Ziho Kang received an award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Three School of Industrial Engineering staff members are finalists for the 2016 College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards.

The Purdue “Earthonauts” recently held their second outreach event at the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center in Crown Point, IN. Six volunteers worked with center participants on three sustainability activities.

The Purdue INFORMS Chapter was selected as a winner of the INFORMS 2016 Student Chapter Annual Award at the Magna Cum Laude level. This is the second year that the Purdue Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Chapter has won the INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award at this level.

Professor Shimon Y. Nof and Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Mohsen Moghaddam have published a new book on best matching processes and functions.

Canadian graduate student Jordan Hill uses human factors engineering to help NASA simulate life on Mars.

The Fall 2016 issue of the Purdue University Engineering Impact magazine features Associate Professor Juan Wachs' "augmented reality" research.

Purdue IE PhD Candidate Jocelyn Dunn (Landry Group) hopes to improve student fitness by using wearable technology to monitor their physical activity.

The Fall 2016 issue of the Purdue University Engineering Impact magazine features Assistant Professor Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi's research on predicting power outages during disasters.

Purdue University has been awarded a five-year, $4.1 million, grant by the National Science Foundation to help coordinate a national initiative aimed at minimizing damage to our nation's physical civil infrastructure.

Assistant Professor Vaneet Aggarwal received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a new project researching erasure codes for online storage.

A Purdue student will carry the Indiana Bicentennial Torch in honor of astronaut and alumnus Gus Grissom.