When Ravi Talwar (MSIE ’69) was eight years old, he saw a high-speed industrial clothing mill in operation. The scene sparked a curiosity for how machines and systems work and foreshadowed a lifelong career spent making them work better. Now an entrepreneur, Talwar shares both his time and resources with Purdue Engineering students, including the recent donation of $500,000 to a ”Rising Star“ professorship in Industrial Engineering by Talwar and his wife, Eleanor.

New projections show climate change could add an average of about 5 percent to Indiana’s commercial energy consumption by the year 2100, while reducing residential energy use an average of 3.5 percent. A research team led by Purdue IE’s Roshanak Nateghi developed a “multi-paradigm” framework to compare energy consumption projections.

Uday V. Shanbhag, Gary and Sheila Chaired Professor at Pennsylvania State University, gave a Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering Distinguished Lecture on November 8.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Procter & Gamble’s Craig Brissman (BSIE 2012) talks about how Purdue IE prepared him well for his career.

In a new Purdue IE “Alumni Spotlights” video series, Deloitte’s Eren Bozbag (BSIE 2017) tells how Purdue Industrial Engineering gave him opportunities beyond the classroom and prepared him well for his career.