Originally from Taiwan, doctoral candidate Kai-Wen Tien is focusing his research on how to achieve smart manufacturing through smart maintenance.

Industrial engineering graduate students on a Service Engineering Academic Learning team explore drone-enabled services with a new initiative called SmartPark. This drone-based intelligent parking system aims to revolutionize the parking industry by identifying the nearest vacant parking spot in real time using an innovative mobile app.

Bárbara Venegas is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and made the decision to use this gift to pursue her graduate education in industrial engineering. As a fellow for the SEE 360 Initiative under Professors Vittal Prabhu and Jose Ventura, Venegas uses her vast international experience and knowledge to research and explore ways the field of engineering can help to optimize the service sector.

A group of three Penn State industrial engineering students took home first place honors in a national competition for developing a mobile application that could potentially save lives.