The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering and Purdue University will play a key role in a new up-to-$41.5 million, five-year research initiative led by the University of Pittsburgh aimed at transforming mobility and independence for people with disabilities through advanced robotics.

The Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering celebrated student achievement, faculty excellence, and staff dedication during its annual Scholarship Awards Banquet, held in early October. The event brought together students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the school to honor the individuals whose hard work and generosity continue to strengthen the Purdue IE community.

The international Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) recently held its 69th Annual Meeting, ASPIRE (Advance Systems and Practices through Innovation, Research and Education).

It's one thing to hear statistics about how climate change and resulting sea level rise will impact our world, and it's another thing entirely to step into an immersive virtual reality environment that lets you visualize those effects.

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From Purdue Industrial Engineering to Predicting Cancer Outcomes

Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering maintains it's position in the top two in the newly released U.S. News and World Report undergraduate rankings.

For nearly 30 years, Charles “Bob” Kenley, Professor of Practice at the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, has been building bridges, connecting disciplines, fostering communities, and shaping how the world approaches complex engineering challenges through systems thinking. His decades of dedication to advancing the field have now earned him the International Council on Systems Engineering's (INCOSE) highest honor: the Founder's Award.

Dr. She received the honor during the Design Engineering Division Award Luncheon at the 2025 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE), held August 17 to August 20 in Anaheim, California.

As the nation reflects on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Dr. David Johnson, sheds light on the progress made in protecting Louisiana's communities from devastating storms.

As part of a research and development alliance between Ford Motor Company and Purdue University, researchers have unveiled promising results from a study exploring the impact of multi-sensory in-vehicle experiences on stress reduction. The project, named Science of Rejuvenate, is redefining what it means for a vehicle to be a sanctuary, not just for transportation, but for emotional and mental recovery.

Dr. Md Masudur Rahman was honored for developing KODER, a novel vision-language reasoning framework that improves early burn severity assessment with AI, earning recognition and $400 at the international medical imaging conference in Leeds, UK.

Edwardson Shool of Industrial Engineering and Indiana University Department of Surgery published groundbreaking research in npj Health Systems, a prestigious journal within the Nature Portfolio focused on interdisciplinary innovations in healthcare systems.

What if an AI could watch over a first responder's shoulder and whisper the next lifesaving step in their ear?