July 29, 2016

Appointments, honors and activities

Alumni honors:

- David A. Ricks, Krannert School of Management alumnus and senior vice president and president of Lilly Bio-Medicines, will become president and CEO of Eli Lilly and Co. and join the board on Jan. 1. The announcement was made July 27. Since 2012, Ricks has been president of Lilly Bio-Medicines, which encompasses the therapeutic areas of Alzheimer's disease, urology, immunology, musculoskeletal disease and pain, as well as the company's global marketing function. After joining Lilly in 1996 as a business development associate, he held several management roles in U.S. marketing and sales before moving to Lilly Canada, where he was director of pharmaceutical marketing, national sales director and general manager. He was named president and general manager of Lilly China before becoming president of Lilly USA in 2009. Ricks earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management from Krannert in 1990. For more, visit http://krannert.purdue.edu/news/features/?story=2947

Student honors:

- Four Purdue University engineering students placed in the annual Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge for their project, TrackRx, taking home the "best use of TI wireless technology" award. The students stand out among the nearly 180 teams that competed this year. TrackRx is a wireless, internet-connected pill bottle designed to make it easier for patients to take their medication correctly and harder for them to abuse prescription medications by dispensing a single dose at a time and providing data to the patient's pharmacist, doctor and other caretakers. Along with the pill bottle itself, the TrackRx system consists of an Android app for the patient, a desktop application for the pharmacist and doctor, and a database and cloud service to communicate with the bottle and applications and securely store patient information. The students, who carried out the project as undergraduates, were team leader Jacob R. Stevens, a computer engineering major from Crestwood, Ill., who is entering a Purdue doctoral program; team members Erik Swan, an electrical engineering major from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, who has graduated; Manik Singhal, an electrical engineering major from New Delhi, India, who is entering a Purdue graduate program; and Everett Berry, a computer engineering major from West Lafayette, who has graduated Matthew Swabey, deputy director of instructional laboratories in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, advised the students.

Rankings:

- Zippia has ranked Krannert's Department of Economics the "Best College for Economics" in Indiana. Zippia collected career data from the National Center for Education Statistics and College Scorecard, and looked at the 162 institutions of higher learning in Indiana to determine which programs offer the best career opportunities for economics majors. Zippia created an "Economics Quality Index," using criteria that included career results, mean earnings, school performance, admissions rate, graduate rate, average cost of attendance and average amount of debt. For more, visit http://krannert.purdue.edu/news/features/?story=2940

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