The idea that housework is work now seems like a commonplace. We contract it out to housekeepers, laundromats, cleaning services, takeout places. We divvy it up: You cooked dinner, I’ll do the dishes.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth is the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the first female engineering professor at Purdue University. She worked to invent time and motion studies ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Films that document pioneering research by the efficiency experts immortalized in four "Cheaper by the Dozen" movies are now available for public viewing. Purdue Libraries' ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection consists primarily of glass plate slides (negative and positive), photo prints, and stereographs documenting the work undertaken by ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University Libraries will save 13 films in its archives that were produced by early 20th-century motion study pioneers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, thanks to two grants ...

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, who, with a younger brother, wrote “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the account of their growing up in a family of 12 children that led to several movies of the same name, died ...

Purdue faculty working in machine learning, artificial intelligence and other fields that are optimized for computations run on graphics processing units (GPUs) have a powerful new resource in ...

The Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) has added 104 GPUs to its Gilbreth cluster in West Lafayette, Indiana. The expansion, which went into production last month, will increase the ...