Most smartphone owners know the frustrations of trying to look through digital photos on a social media app to find the one they want. The pictures can be slow to load and sometimes not load at all. Vaneet Aggarwal and collaborators have developed a solution to help cut down loading wait times and provide more efficient data storage options for corporations of all sizes.
Wenzhuo Wu, Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, was recently granted the prestigious CAREER Award from NSF for Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Two-Dimensional Topological Materials for Quantum Device Applications. The five-year award is granted to researchers in the first five years of their academic career and is given to those who show excellence and innovation in their work.
Professor Aldo Scutari and collaborators Stefania Sardellitti and Sergio Barbarossa were recently awarded the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) 2020 Best Paper Award for their work, Joint Optimization of Radio and Computational Resources for Multicell Mobile-Edge Computing.
Srinivasan Chandrasekar, professor of industrial engineering, talks about new findings on how certain films produce the effect of reduced force of cutting and leave a clean cut in seconds on certain metals.
Gesualdo Scutari, Thomas and Jane Schmidt Rising Star Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, has been named an IEEE Fellow.
Dr. Roshi Nateghi, associate professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University, has been elected to the position of Councilor for the Society for Risk Analysis. Congratulations, Dr. Nateghi, and thank you for your leadership and service for your field.
In this episode of "Problem Solved," Angie Jackman, an industrial engineer with NASA and project manager for the Mars Ascent Vehicle mission at the Marshall Space Flight Center, discusses her career and the role of industrial and systems engineers at the space agency with IISE member and Purdue University Industrial Engineering professor Barrett Caldwell.
Edgar Rojas-Munoz's paper entitled "The AI-Medic: An Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery" was named Best Paper Award. It was submitted to the 14th Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions workshop (AE-CAI), part of the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).
As staff sort through the last of the remnants moved out of MGL prior to demolition, Marc Williams, IE Senior Laboratory Coordinator, found this article about the lab's namesake, Michael Golden, from Purdue Today in 1985.
COVID-19 has spotlighted the importance of supply chain - especially accentuating the need for more resilience in the chain. You'd be hard-pressed to hear many people in the general population talking about supply chain until these past few months.