'Information Engineering' to be theme of IE's Salvendy Symposium

The School of Industrial Engineering will hold the Third Gavriel Salvendy International Symposium on Frontiers in Industrial Engineering with the theme of "Information Engineering" on Sept. 29 and 30. The talks will be aimed at a general audience and will provide a broad exposure to this crucial emerging discipline. The symposium is free and open to the public.

The symposium will run 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday in Stewart Center, rooms 302-306. Registration is required to attend. Register online at www.conf.purdue.edu/salvendy.

The selection of this theme reflects how, in the digital era, information is as vital a component in any enterprise as materials, financial resources and humans. Moreover, in an information economy, a structured approach to all facets of handling information is essential, and so information engineering is growing in importance.

Speakers for the symposium will come from numerous fields and use real-world projects as context for topics of interest to the public and to professionals using big data. A schedule summary with abstracts is at https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/Events/gavriel-salvendy-symposium-on-information-engineering-.

The symposium is sponsored in part by Professor Emeritus Gavriel Salvendy, who was on the school's faculty from 1971 to 2008. Among his many honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Go to https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/AboutUs/TGSIS/index_html for more about the symposium series and Salvendy.

For more information about the symposium content, contact Prabhu Nagabhushana, the Reilly Professor of Industrial Engineering, at prabhu@purdue.edu.