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December 2024
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Purdue University and the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering are incredibly grateful for the generosity of John and Fran Edwardson. Learn more about their transformative philanthropic gift. | ||||||
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| Rising Star Professors Named Four IE Associate Professors have recently earned the distinction of the Rising Star professorship. Learn more about each of these outstanding faculty members and their research in areas such as AI used in a wide variety of applications rangind from healthcare to sustainability, flood risk management, decision analysis under deep uncertainty, and human interaction with next-generation tech designs. | ||||||
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| Scutari and Wachs Honored with Named Professorships Gesualdo "Aldo" Scutari has been named the Pedro and Barbara Granadillo Professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering. Juan Wachs has been named the James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering. Aldo?s research interests are distributed and large-scale optimization, and its applications in communications and sensor networks. Juan?s research interests are computer vision, tele-operations, and assistive technologies. | ||||||
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| | WELCOME NEW FACULTY | ||||||
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Welcome!
We are thrilled to announce the addition of several outstanding new faculty members! Zaiwei Chen, Assistant Professor; PhD, Georgia Tech Congfang Huang, Lecturer; PhD, UW-Madison April Savoy, Assistant Professor; PhD, Purdue IE Liwei Jiang, Assistant Professor; PhD, Cornell (Joining Fall 2025) Miaolin Xie, Assistant Professor; PhD, Cornell (Joining Fall 2025) Congratulations and Welcome! | ||||||
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| | ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT | ||||||
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| Alumni Engagement Awards Congratulations and thank you to our alumni, who we are forever grateful for. This year four alumni were awarded with Alumni Student Engagement Awards at our Fall Scholarship Awards Banquet. The awardees are: Ravi Talwar; MSIE '69, OIE '17, President of Gate City Steel, Inc., (awarded posthumously) Tom Benes; BSIE '75, MSIE '76, OIE '18, President and CEO; Forum Purchasing, LLC (pictured) Jim Savage; BSIE '72, OIE '97, President; United Healthcare (retired). Andy Burke; BSIE '83 Managing Director, Farlie Turner Gilbert & Co. The four were honored for their generous commitment of their time, talents, and resources, which includes mentorship, speaking at various panels, and funding of scholarships, just to name a few ways in which these incredible alumni have made such a valuable impact. Learn more about their contributions here. | ||||||
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| Conversation with Savage Scholars Purdue Engineering is celebrating 150 years of excellence this year, which inspired us to look back at our unique history. We sat down with Jim Savage and several Savage Scholars to discuss the unique family environment that exists within the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering. | ||||||
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| | FACULTY AWARDS & RECOGNITION | ||||||
| Cai and Martinez Honored for Teaching Excellence The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering celebrated two remarkable faculty achievements at Purdue University?s annual "Celebration of Teaching Excellence" awards ceremony on September 26. Cai received the esteemed Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Award (Junior Fellow), while Martinez earned the Innovation Hub Award for his pioneering applications of generative AI in the classroom. |  | |||||
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.png) | Yu She Develops Tactile Perceptive Robots Capable of Gentle Manipulation In addition to this, She has been awarded a Showalter Trust Research Award for high-resolution tactile mapping in surgery, and a NIFA grant for robotic strawberry harvesting with tactile-enhanced grasping and legged locomotion, which may help address labor shortages in agricultural settings. | |||||
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| Yu and Wu Developing Automated, Scalable, AI-Driven, Solution for Occupational Ergonomics 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. Additionally, Yu was recently honored with the 2024 IEA Outstanding Educator Award at the International Ergonomics & Human Factors Association (IEA) triennial congress in Jeju, Korea. |  | |||||
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 | Shimon Y. Nof: Pioneering AI-Driven Innovation for Failure Prevention and Enhanced Agriculture Robotics ?The patent transforms the static and reactive approach to failure repair to a real-time adaptive method,? said Nof. This tool can protect supply chains, energy grids, and other complex vital systems. And what sets it apart is its ability to evolve and improve as it encounters new failures and digests additional data. It?s a patented combination of systems engineering, network science, and the latest AI-powered algorithms.? | |||||
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| Brad Duerstock and Collaborators to Improve Disabled Persons 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. |  | |||||
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 | Wu and Pitts Invited to NAE's Prestigious U.S.-Africa Frontiers Symposium Brandon Pitts, Elliott Sigal Rising Star Associate Professor and Wenzhuo Wu (pictured here during his trip to the 2022 symposium), Professor of Industrial Engineering have been invited to the prestigious 3rd annual symposium, which brings together outstanding scientists from the two continents to share and discuss their work. | |||||
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| | ALUMNI NEWS | ||||||
| Claire Konz (BSIE '21) & Cate Davis (BSIE '16) Both Earn Honors for Supply Chain Work Claire Konz (BSIE '21, pictured) Earns Award for Material Handling Render, Cate Davis (BSIE '16) Named Rising Star in the Women in Supply Chain Awards. |  | |||||
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 | Alumni Spotlight: Bryan Denmark (BSIE '23) Bryan Denmark, class of '23, was President of the IISE Student Chapter at Purdue, and is currently the President of IISE Young Professionals. Bryan recently came to campus for the Sigma Career Fair in a recruiting capacity for PepsiCo. Denmark, who works for PepsiCo's Supply Chain Capabilities & Optimization team as a Systems & Reporting Analyst, took some time to sit down with us to discuss his time here and how it helped him prepare for his career. | |||||
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| | eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations (XMO) News | ||||||
| Purdue's eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations (XMO) Co-Hosts "Semiconductor Supply Chains Silicon Valley Workshop" The event was organized by Harold T. Amrine Distinguished Professor Stephan Biller (pictured right), who also serves as the XMO co-Chair. The workshop featured panels moderated by Yuehwern Yih, Tompkins Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, and Paul Chhabra (MSIE, PhD, 2000, OIE '23), VP of Applied Materials. |  | |||||
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| | STUDENT NEWS AND RESEARCH | ||||||
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| Villarreal, who was named an NSF Graduate Research Fellow earlier this year, will be a part of Crew 306. The crew will be stationed at the research station from December 22nd to January 4th of 2025. |  | |||||
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 | The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering was well represented at the HFES Aspire Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona this past September. Several students earned a variety of awards, including the Purdue HFES Chapter, which earned its 15th Gold Chapter Award! | |||||
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"Kaleia Maxey, an industrial engineering student, wanted to start a podcast. But she had one major obstacle: What would she talk about? More importantly, what could she talk about that no one else had already covered?" |  | |||||
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| | GATEWAY LABS CONTINUE TO LEAD THE WAY | ||||||
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Piloting NVIDIA Ominiverse Digital Twin of Build@Scale Lab in Classroom and Research Students also have access to a virtual reality cave and a Zeiss Scanbox (through a collaboration with Purdue Polytechnic). In addition to this, Toyota Materials Handling recently gifted the school with a brand new electric powered forklift for the Build @ Scale Lab.The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering has continued to increase the number of tools available to students for hands-on learning, ranging from the AI-Enabled Robotics Integration Lab in the Build @ Scale Lab to the Move4D technology in the Geoffrey and Katherine Cubitt Human Integration Lab. Students have the details of the Build @ Scale Lab as a digital twin through the use of the NVIDIA Omniverse (pictured). | |||||
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| | THE SEMESTER IN PICTURES | ||||||
| Fall of '24 Check out the photos from all of the great events that took place of this past school year. Students, alumni, faculty, and family are all here in our online photo galleries. |  | |||||
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