Dr. James A. Tompkins (BSIE 1969, MSIE 1970, PhD 1972) created the Tompkins Professorship because he wanted to give something tangible back to the Purdue School of Industrial Engineering.

The Tribology & Lubrication journal interviewed Dr. C. Richard Liu about his research on the root mechanism affecting machined surface integrity.

Professor Shimon Nof, two Purdue IE graduate students and an IE alum gave five presentations at the International Conference on Production Research Manufacturing Innovation (ICPR).

A rapidly growing global population in the midst of a changing climate had led to serious sustainability issues and choices surrounding water, food and energy. These stresses and the policy responses will vary by locality, but they will have global repercussions that will ultimately affect the success of those choices.

John Beering (BSIE 1992) was named president of United Access, a provider of accessible vehicles and other products.

Purdue IE's Mark Lehto, professor of industrial engineering, collaborated on a multi-disciplinary study revisiting tourism as a personal health and wellness resource.

In Purdue IE’s “Alumni Spotlights” video series, alumna Terrie McComb (BSIE 1983) talks about how Purdue IE prepared her well academically and practically for her managerial position at ITW.

Purdue University on Tuesday (Sept. 10) announced a $40 million Lilly Endowment grant to Purdue Research Foundation to help create Purdue’s Engineering and Polytechnic Gateway Complex, a project designed to meet the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and math graduates ready to contribute to what is being called the fourth industrial revolution: Industry 4.0.

Purdue IE‘s undergraduate program kept its No. 3 spot among Industrial/Manufacturing engineering undergraduate programs in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings.

An IE undergraduate researcher presented a poster at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on July 25.

An IE professor and grad student returned to Uganda for the third phase of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project to help save the lives of Ugandan mothers.

Purdue IE's Juan Pablo Wachs is leaving his footprints in the AI industry by bridging the gap between humanity and technology with his research in supervised autonomy.

Building on previous meetings, Professor Barrett Caldwell and two IE students traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) on May 19-22 to help with disaster recovery planning.

Undergraduates working with seven IE faculty members participated in Purdue's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Symposium on August 1.

ASME’s August 2019 issue features Leo Aerospace, co-founded by IE alum Michael Hepfer (BSIE 2019).