Purdue Trustees Approve Projects;
Building of e-Enterprise Center
"Right now, we have projects spread all over campus," Howell said. "By bringing students and faculty together, it will help increase the effectiveness of their collaboration and the pace of their research. Through frequent interaction with researchers on other projects, faculty and students will likely develop new ideas about their own research by learning about the research of others. We would also expect some inter-project collaboration made possible by the close proximity of teams."
Howell said that while designs for the building are not complete, he envisions several projects being able to be housed in the facility. By their funding nature, these projects will be temporary, and the teams of researchers could rotate in and out of the space every few years.
Besides
providing work space and computer infrastructure, Howell said the e-Enterprise
Center staff also will support the research teams in several aspects of proposal
development and project management. This, he said, will give faculty more time
for research, making the projects more efficient.
Purdue's e-Enterprise Center will bring together faculty and students with
strengths in database systems design and integration engineering, software
engineering, communication, management, operations systems, production systems,
decision theory applications, system performance, risk evaluation, marketing,
customer service and model simulation.
Through this center, an entire enterprise - commerce, supply chain, management,
operations, product life cycle management, customer service and data security -
can be modeled, analyzed and made more efficient.