Anahita Khojandi and Xiaopeng Zhao have been selected for the AAAS 2024-25 Science & Technology Policy Fellowship.

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.

Bayli Manuel, a sophomore industrial and systems engineering major, passed away on May 30, from injuries sustained in a car accident involving a DUI driver. 

Rising senior Caroline Czarnecki is spending her summer as a whitewater rafting guide at Yellowstone National Park. Czarnecki is building her leadership and planning skills while reconnecting with nature.

In recognition of their academic excellence, ISE undergraduates Lillian McCloud and Julie Davenport have each received a $1,000 scholarship from the IISE.

Bill Hicks was named as one of the members of the 2024-2025 Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellows Cohort.

PhD student Samuel Affar was awarded “Outstanding Graduate Student Senator” and “Excellence in Service” at the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Awards Brunch 2024 Program.

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.

Chase Post, Jacob Seals, Preston Ruth, and Harriet “Hattie” Williamson are among the 2023-24 recipients of the Wallace “Dwight” Kessel Scholarship.