The award will help Yu and his team research robotic strawberry harvesting with tactile-enhanced grasping and legged locomotion, which may help address labor shortages in agricultural settings.

Professor Gary Cheng has been named the Best Author Award by the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IJEM) in 2024. This prestigious recognition honors his team's multiple submission, based on their groundbreaking work on scalable laser nanomanufacturing platforms for producing nanoalloys.

The award will help fund She's research "Feeling the Difference: High-Resolution Tactile Mapping in Surgery."

The team earned second place for their project titled "Predicting EV Charging Demand: A Novel Approach Utilizing Traffic Flows"

Jackovic, a master's student, is co-advised by Assistant Professor Reem Khir and Isabella Sanders of USMA at West Point.

Industrial Engineering Associate Professor of Practice and Professional Master's Program Director Nga Hin Benjamin "Ben" Fong has been named an IISE Fellow for 2024.

Victoria Houed (BSIE '16) was recently selected to be part of the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy inaugural Tech & Public Policy Visiting Fellows program. Victoria was kind enough to give us an update on what she has been up to since graduating in 2016.

Meet Vikas Devulapalli!

Vikas Devulapalli, rising senior and current president of Purdue IISE, recently won the IISE Council of Fellows Undergraduate Scholarship. The award recognizes ISE students for their outstanding academics and leadership, as well as their potential service to the industrial engineering profession.

The Purdue Chapter of IISE will host the 2025 Great Lakes Regional Conference where we'll be joined by students from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.

The MIT Supply Chain Management Master's Program recognizes exceptional students who demonstrate outstanding talent in supply chain management or industrial engineering.

Two graduate students and one faculty member from the School of Industrial Engineering were recently honored for their service, teaching and mentoring efforts this year.

IE's Harsha Honnappa, associate professor of industrial engineering and Vaneet Aggarwal, professor of industrial engineering, are two of three Purdue faculty members to earn DEPSCoR grants this year.

The School of Industrial Engineering (IE) at Purdue University welcomed a promising collaboration with the Humanoid Robot Club Purdue during a recent meeting on April 19, 2024.