News
October 31, 2023
Brandon Pitts Receives 2023 Stephanie Binder Young Professional Award
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).
October 19, 2023
IE’s Yu She Co-principal Investigator of NSF Grant-Winning Research Project
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.
October 11, 2023
Sutherland Named Courtesy IE Faculty, NAE Member
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.
October 6, 2023
IE Welcomes New Autonomous Mobile Manipulator Robot
The School of Industrial Engineering has welcomed its newest faculty member, and it's a robot!
October 3, 2023
Denny Yu Named NSC Rising Star of Safety
Denny Yu, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, has been named a National Safety Council Rising Star of Safety.
October 2, 2023
We are Hiring - Multiple Faculty Positions
The School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant and Associate Professor.
September 29, 2023
IE's Ana Maria Estrada Gomez and co-PI Leopold Green (BME) awarded NSF grant
Estrada Gomez, along with co-PI Leopold Green, have been awarded an NSF grant of over $700,000 to fund their project involving the development of a tool that can detect and treat inflammatory bowel diseases.
September 27, 2023
Sivaranjani "Siva" Seetharaman named to MIT 35 under 35
Assistant Professor Seetharaman was chosen for her work in the Climate and Energy sector, proving to be a rising star in the field.
September 21, 2023
Sivaranjani Seetharaman Earns DEPSCoR Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Siva Seetharaman for receiving a Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) award! Seetharaman and her team, co-led by Professor Vijay Gupta, will receive their share of $18 million in grant funding awarded by the Department of Defense.
September 18, 2023
IE Welcomes New Faculty for 2023-24
Fall of 2023 brings in two new faculty members, Souvik Dhara (Assistant Professor) and Syed Helmi (Professor of Practice). Then, in January of 2024 the School of Industrial Engineering welcomes Zhe "Jimmy" Zhang.
September 14, 2023
PhD Student Earns Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award.
Industrial Engineering PhD student Guoyang Zhou has recently won the 2023 Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award!
September 8, 2023
A New Kind of Teaching Assistant
A virtual teaching assistant powered by artificial intelligence is being utilized in an engineering course at Purdue. How might this technology transform education in the years to come?
August 31, 2023
Susan Hunter earns DEPSCoR Award
This past May, the United States Department of Defense awarded grants to four projects led by Purdue University researchers as part of the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR).