Seven graduating Purdue IE seniors received MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards this week.

IE's Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Professor and Director of the Purdue Center for Materials Processing and Tribology, and his international research team have solved the 400-year-old mystery of Prince Rupert's Drops. The team used integrated photoelasticity to measure the complex stress distribution that give these glass drops their shatter-resistant behavior.

IE 431 Senior Design Capstone Project students not only learned about real-world business projects, but served companies by providing practical recommendations for improvements. Thirty-one student teams presented their finished research project posters at an exhibition on April 25, and four winning teams were announced.

The Purdue Industrial Engineering Graduate Student Organization (IE GSO) held its annual Research Symposium on April 25 in Grissom Hall. The symposium included a graduate student poster competition and a panel discussion with four Outstanding IE (OIE) alumni.

The School of Industrial Engineering held its annual Outstanding Industrial Engineer Awards Ceremony on April 27.

Paul M. Griffin was recently honored at the annual College of Engineering Faculty Awards of Excellence banquet on April 7.

Purdue IE placed 5th in yesterday's annual Purdue Day of Giving fundraising event.

A number of IE graduate students received Purdue College of Engineering awards at a luncheon on April 19, 2017, in the Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom.

Boshra Afra, PhD, joined the Purdue Systems Collaboratory in March as the Research and Education Director.

The Purdue Industrial Engineering Graduate Student Organization (IE GSO) held a reception to honor Harsha Honnappa, assistant professor of industrial engineering, as this year’s recipient of the IE Outstanding Graduate Mentor award.

The Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) Program this summer will include projects involving two IE professors.

Read the Spring 2017 IE WEBLetter for the latest news from Purdue IE!

International Purdue Industrial Engineering (IE) students talk about - in their own languages - why they chose to study industrial engineering at Purdue.