David Soukup (MS ’81) was named a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) at the IISE’s 2024 Annual Conference and Expo.

Five alumni from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) who graduated within the last four years are now assistant professors at other universities around the country.

In 2022, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin completed his PhD at UT—the payoff of a 22-year shift from technical analysis to systems-level thinking.

Jianxin Xie (ISE PhD ’23), now an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, took a break from setting up her lab to reminisce about her time at UT.