The School of Industrial Engineering is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Denny Yu was awarded the International Ergonomics Association’s (IEA) 2023 IEA/Tsinghua Award.

Yuehwern Yih, professor of industrial engineering, has been named the Tompkins Professor of Industrial Engineering.

Meet Philip Prabhakar!

Patented laser innovations have applications in consumer devices, aerospace and naval industries, plasmonics, sensing, and quantum information

Meet our next student spotlight: Ibukun Phillips!


Ibukun is a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering completing research on the verification and validation of AI-enabled systems.

During International Education Week (November 13th through 17th) the Purdue Office of Global Partnerships and Global Academic Committee recognized four winners of Purdue's 2023 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award. IE's Yuehwern Yih is the 2023 recipient of this award.

Physical. Digital. Sustainable. Three Purdue NAE members lead a national event, eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations (XMO) Summit in DC, coalescing experts for development of industry infrastructure for the next industrial revolution.

Alpha Pi Mu, the national industrial engineering honor society, awarded the Purdue chapter 3rd place in this year’s Outstanding Chapter Award competition! This recognition marks Purdue APM’s significant contributions towards student success and involvement in the field of IE.

Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Engineering have created new noninvasive, wearable sensors that monitor levels of uric acid in human sweat. A paper about the research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nano Energy.

Faster, more accurate measurement of uric acid levels could lead to better diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of several physiological and psychological conditions

Meet World Traveler Kirsten Brutans!

Brandon Pitts, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, has received the 2023 Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award given by the Surface Transportation Technical Group (STTG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

Meet Rohit Mukherjee!

Led by Oregon State University researchers, this $1.5 million endeavor aims to develop a team of underwater robots that can collect measurements of ice cavities and oceanic properties by traveling beneath ice shelves.

John Sutherland, Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University and NAE member, was granted a courtesy appointment to the IE faculty.

The School of Industrial Engineering has welcomed its newest faculty member, and it's a robot!