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Giorgina Ninassi: College of Engineering, Expected Date of Graduation- '29 Why did you pursue supply chain engineering technology as a minor? I plan to minor in supply chain because the topics in the course curriculum would deepen my understanding of finance and business management. Exploring the global supply chain truly impacts corporations. Instead of just focusing on the theory of operational systems, I aim to additionally explore its execution process as well. Supply chains are [...]
Archeet Shah Major: Computer Engineering Minor: Supply Chain Engineering Technology Expected Date of Graduation: May 2028 Why did you pursue supply chain as a minor? Supply chains are the backbone of the global economy — they power our world silently in the background, yet without them, we wouldn’t have many of the things we enjoy [...]
Name: May Poopanead Major: Electrical Engineering Technology Minor: Supply Chain Engineering Technology Expected date of graduation: May, ‘27 Why did you pursue supply chain engineering technology as a minor? I chose to minor in Supply Chain Engineering Technology to complement my major in Electrical Engineering Technology. Electrical engineering involves designing and maintaining electrical systems, while [...]
Why did you pursue Supply Chain & Sales Engineering Technology as a minor? I pursued Supply Chain as a minor because I believe the combination of Economics and Supply Chain would provide me with a holistic approach to problem solving, giving me insights into how efficiencies in the international supply chain contribute to the value [...]
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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
