December 2, 2024
Fall 2024 Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering Newsletter Released
The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering is excited to share our Fall 2024 Newsletter!
News
November 27, 2024
IE Well Represented at Undergraduate Research Expo
Eight interdisciplinary teams mentored by IE faculty and IE graduate students presented posters or delivered research talks.
November 7, 2024
Cai and Martinez Honored at Celebration of Teaching Excellence Awards
The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering celebrated two remarkable faculty achievements on September 26 at Purdue University’s annual "Celebration of Teaching Excellence" awards ceremony.
November 4, 2024
Professor Shimon Y. Nof: Pioneering AI-Driven Innovation for Failure Prevention and Enhanced Agriculture Robotics
Professor Shimon Y. Nof is a professor of industrial engineering at Purdue and the director of the PRISM Center (Production, Robotics and Integration Software for Manufacturing & Management).
November 1, 2024
Dr. Young-Jun Son Delivers Opening Keynote at International Conference of Process Mining
Dr. Young-Jun Son, James J. Solberg Head and Ransburg Professor of Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, gave the opening keynote speech on “Multi-paradigm, Online, Hierarchical Simulations to Support Process Mining” at the 2024 International Conference of Process Mining (ICPM) held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 14-18, 2024.
October 30, 2024
Pitts receives CALC 2024 Exceptional Engagement Award
Dr. Brandon Pitts, Elliott Sigal Rising Star Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, has received the 2024 Exceptional Engagement Award presented by the Purdue Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC). Pitts was presented this award, and delivered an acceptance speech, during the Annual CALC Symposium at Purdue on October 18, 2024.
October 28, 2024
IE Professors Denny Yu and Wenzhuo Wu Awarded a Grant to Improve Worker Safety with Printable Bioinspired Nanosensors
The team has been awarded a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop cutting-edge bioinspired wearable sensors aimed at protecting workers from injuries that occur in manual material handling (MMH) jobs.
October 25, 2024
Aldo Scutari Delivers Keynote and Lectures at Several Events
Aldo Scutari, Pedro and Barbara Granadillo Professor in The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, delivered Keynote to ICOMP and IEEE and Distinguished Lecture Series earlier this year.
October 23, 2024
Toyota Materials Handling Donates Electric Fork Truck
Toyota Materials Handling North America, located in Columbus Indiana, has generously provided the Build @ Scale Lab a new electric forklift.
October 18, 2024
Professor of Practice Brad Duerstock and Team Receives NSF Grant to Improve Disabled Person’s Access to STEM Facilities
A group of engineering professors at Purdue recently received a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for $985,000 for the team's Rapid User-centered Design and Optimization of Lab Facilities (RUDOLF) for STEM Inclusion project.
October 15, 2024
Join PODAS: PhD Positions Available in Space Debris Dynamics, Stochastic Modelling, and Network Science
The PODAS project invites applications for two PhD positions focused on developing stochastic models to predict the evolution of the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment.
