An invention may turn one of the most widely used materials for biomedical applications into wearable devices to help monitor heart health.

A team at Purdue University has developed self-powered wearable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based contact layers for monitoring cardiovascular health. TENGs help conserve mechanical energy and turn it into power.

War zones can be too far from operating rooms, preventing soldiers from receiving the surgery they need fast enough.

A Purdue University-led study is the first to show medics successfully performing surgery in life-like simulations of these war zones by receiving guidance from surgeons through an augmented reality headset.

"I came to Purdue first in 1967. It was such a good place, I decided that this was my choice." We sat down with Professor Richard Liu to talk about highlights of his career and his favorite memories.

Many students had their life turned upside down in March when classes went virtual. But some seized the moment – this was especially true of Industrial Engineering May 2020 graduate, Ivo (pronounced: EE-vo) Marrero Araña.

The School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position, full-time, academic year (9 month), beginning in August 2020.

A Purdue-record 76 student-athletes earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition for their academic excellence during the 2019-20 school year. Among them is industrial engineering junior and Purdue Men's golf star, Joe Weiler.

Extreme weather and climate events cause significant loss of life and property, as well as substantial social and economic loss. Compounding the problem, population growth in vulnerable areas, resource constraints and climate extremes make it difficult to rapidly recover interrupted services — especially in the context of climate change, as we face a future in which disasters will become more severe or more frequent. And the COVID-19 pandemic has added new needs.

Purdue College of Engineering highlighted IE Professor Shimon Nof in their monthly podcast. Nof discusses the foundation of Industrial Engineering, Industry 4.0, emerging areas of research, and the role industrial engineers play in helping solve challenges from the pandemic we are facing with COVID-19.

Theresa Carter, BS IE '85, was appointed by the governor of Indiana as one of three alumni members of the Purdue Board of Trustees.


"Purdue is indeed lucky to have someone with Theresa's experience, insight and integrity on the Board of Trustees to guide us, especially during these critical times for academia. It is certainly an honor for the School of Industrial Engineering to have one of our own distinguished alumnae on the Board," says Abhijit Deshmukh, James J. Solberg Head and Tompkins Chair of Systems, School of Industrial Engineering.

Purdue's student chapter of IISE has been featuring Purdue IEs' efforts during the pandemic on social media. This is a collection of those stories.

Intelligent technologies have begun to affect nearly every corner of our lives. At the same time, people 65 years and older have become the fastest-growing age group worldwide. While there are many benefits of a future enabled by smart tools, older adults have typically been left out of the product design conversation, which has not taken into account their capabilities, limitations, expectations, and usability issues. That exclusion is compromising their potential to use these advances to extend their capabilities, improve safety, reduce workload, and enhance convenience.

Interest in electric vehicles (#EV) is rapidly increasing, requiring EV charging infrastructure and polices to evolve as demand shifts.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced public health, supply chain, transportation, government, economic and many other entities to interact in real time. One of the challenges in large systems interacting in this way is that even tiny errors in one system can cause devastating effects across the entire system chain.

An innovation turning waste material into stretchable devices may soon provide a new option for creating self-powered biomedical inventions.

Claire Konz takes Honorable Mention for her research, Prolonged Standing in the Operating Room.