Major/Minor Major: Electrical Engineering Technology Minors: Supply Chain Technology, AI/Machine Learning Why you pursued Supply Chain & Sales Engineering Technology as a minor? I pursued this minor because I wanted to understand the engineering models and practices that are necessary when running a business. In addition, I wanted to combine my Electrical Engineering Technology major [...]
Author: Jim Tanoos
Open Educational Resources and BTAA

The concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) lies in the spirit of public domain, or the availability of intellectual property. The public domain statute in the US offers books free to the public with no copyrights associated if they were published 96 years ago or earlier. OER initiatives advocate for access and transparency of published [...]
Finance Major Arihant Talera on Why He Chose to Minor in Supply Chain Engineering Technology
Major: Finance Minors: Supply Chain Engineering Technology & Real Estate Finance Expected Date of Graduation: May 2024 Why did you pursue supply chain as a minor? There were multiple reasons that prompted me to enroll in this minor. The first one was my background, because my family in India has had active business interests in [...]
Purdue University Connects the World

Purdue University not only connects people to the world, as epitomized by alumnus Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, but it also connects people in the world. That was the case in May 2023, when students from Purdue participated in a supply chain-themed study abroad in Rotterdam Netherlands, home to the largest port on the European continent. [...]
BTAA Purchasing Consortium

Universities in the Big Ten conference, the oldest and most influential collegiate athletics league in the world, also comprise the Big Ten Academic Alliance, a collaborative student-centric society and scholastic-focused coalition formed in 1958. Alliance member institutions contribute to the common educational good, such as shared access to a digital library system that constitutes the largest single pool of [...]
Student-led Clubs at Universities and their Impact

Forging a new era of realignment in the college athletics landscape, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) joined the Big Ten athletic conference in 1990, becoming the 11th member institution. The name of the conference was not changed, a wise branding decision that was not understood by many at a time before conference realignment phases began in earnest. In August 2023, [...]
Sustainability in the Multinational Automobile Industry: OUR Scholars project at Purdue University

Compared to the national average, an astounding 450%+ of the workforce is employed in the multinational automobile organization (MAO) industry in the state of Indiana, where Toyota, Honda, and Subaru are collaborating with regional tier-one supply chain organizations on R&D and innovations. Indiana’s moniker as the “Crossroads of America” reflects its numerous interstates and proximate [...]
Selling in the Post-Pandemic Global Supply Chain
The global supply chain includes the buying and selling disciplines, but the selling aspect has gone through dramatic recent changes, as the failed strategies that led to the pandemic-induced supply chain crisis have been revisited. At their annual sellers conference, Supply Chain by Amazon in September 2023, Amazon announced a broad initiative providing their organizational [...]
2023 Maymester study abroad- Purdue Polytechnic’s Central European Multinational Automobile Organization Supply Chain experience
Post-COVID Strategies for International Supply Chain Sales: Curriculum development for global industrial distribution at Purdue University

The pandemic’s effect on supply chain sales has prompted a shift to a more virtual process, which has effectively shut the door on traditional face-to-face fieldwork communications such as back-slapping industry insiders at trade shows and longshoremen conversing on the docks at global ports. To replace the old styles of communications, small manufacturing systems and [...]