Today's manufacturers struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in technology because of the inability to adapt and the new skills required of their workforce. Simulating factory settings with new technologies before they are available would help manufacturers assess business success and risks, offset costs, scale efforts for training workers and stay competitive.

Heart surgery can be traumatic for patients. Having to continuously monitor your status without a doctor when you are back home can be even scarier. Imagine being able to do that with a simple sticker applied to your body. Purdue University researchers have advanced a sticker solution moving it several steps closer to reality. The research was recently published in ACS Advanced Materials and Interfaces.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded funding to a Purdue IE professor for his research on piezoelectric nanomaterials.

A Purdue IE undergraduate student invented a massaging backpack and co-founded a start-up company with his parents to produce it.

A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.

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Two IE undergraduates are working together with Purdue Student Government (PSG) to promote environmental sustainability on campus.

A Purdue IE faculty member was interviewed on an Indianapolis news program about augmented reality research.

A CONNplexity Lab graduate student delivered an oral presentation and presented an entrepreneurial group project at the 5th Mediterranean School of Complex Networks (MSCX).

Purdue IE held its second annual alumni panel discussion titled "IE= CEO: Dynamic Careers in Industrial Engineering". Seven exceptional IE alumni and one current undergraduate participated in the discussion, attended by almost four times as many students as last year’s event.

At halftime of the Purdue football game against Boston College on Sept. 22, one of the homecoming crowns went to a familiar face - IE senior Lily Bishop.

The Purdue University chapter of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) received the national organization’s Gold Award – for the 19th year in a row.

An international MSIE/PhD student learned valuable lessons studying abroad in the Netherlands.

A collaborative proposal between Purdue IE and ECE faculty has been awarded a one-year EFC-Future Manufacturing seed grant from the College of Engineering.

The Purdue Office of Professional Practice (OPP) inducted IE alum Geoffrey Cubitt (BSIE 1992) into the Cooperative Education Hall of Fame, along with three others, at a luncheon ceremony.