To accommodate student enrollment growth across the university and strategic initiatives in the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University trustees gave approval to plan, finance, construct, and award construction contracts for an approximately 164,000-square-foot building on the West Lafayette campus.
The Purdue Board of Trustees has approved naming the School of Industrial Engineering for alumnus John A. Edwardson in recognition of $25 million in total gift commitments to support students, faculty, and programming. The school will be known as the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.