Purdue IE welcomed Philip (Phil) Waclawik to the IE development team on August 21 as a Director of Development. As a Purdue IE alum (BSIE 1983), he will play a key role in helping to engage his fellow IE alumni and further the school’s outreach.

Purdue student startup FroYo XPress is developing an automated, self-serve frozen yogurt kiosk that will offer an all-natural, non-dairy frozen yogurt with minimal inventory and labor requirements, according to Purdue Research Foundation news.

Six IE students interned this summer at TVS Motor Company in Bangalore and Hosur, India.

A new featherweight, flame-resistant and super-elastic “metamaterial” has been shown to combine high strength with electrical conductivity and thermal insulation, suggesting potential applications from buildings to aerospace. The composite combines nanolayers of a ceramic called aluminum oxide with graphene, which is an extremely thin sheet of carbon.

A multidisciplinary Purdue Engineering team received a U.S. Department of Energy grant to study ways to save energy in motorized machines that produce sheet metal. Purdue IE‘s Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar and Research Engineer James Mann are part of the three-year project.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, JP Morgan Analyst Kevin Griffith tells how his Purdue BSIE (2015) prepared him well for his career.

Purdue IE will offer a new “Introduction to Simulation” (IE 48100) course starting in the spring of 2018.

Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal and six co-authors will receive the 2017 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award recognizing the Best Systems Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

IE alumna Lauren Rourk believes her Purdue entrepreneurship certificate will help her transition smoothly to her new position at Northrop Grumman Aerospace.

The Purdue University chapter of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) received the professional organization’s Gold Award – for the 17th year in a row.

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.

IE alumnus Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Robert D. Shadley was recently honored by the Purdue Board of Trustees for contributing over $1 million for faculty and student support in the Purdue School of Industrial Engineering.

IE Associate Professor Juan Wachs spent the fall semester of 2016 as a Fulbright Scholar in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dr. Joaquín Goñi co-organized a Satellite on Network Neuroscience at the recent NetSci conference June 19-23 in Indianapolis. He also chaired a Brain II session at the conference, and three of his CONNplexity lab members spoke and presented papers.