Alumni
SIE Alumni in Their Prime
SIE alumni in thriving businesses and at government agencies around the world are keeping every step of services and production primed to operate at maximum efficiency.
Perhaps you mastered the principles of artificial intelligence in a systems and industrial engineering lab, worked with transportation agencies to cut down traffic congestion, or learned the skills to manage operations for your company. Now you are inspiring the next UA systems and industrial engineers to make their own efficiency breakthroughs in countless fields.
For all you do in the service of the College of Engineering, the University of Arizona and society at large, thank you!
Honoring Exceptional Graduates
Cecilia Lluria-Gossler, 2023 Alumni Professional Achievement & Service Awardee
Alumni Professional Achievement & Service Award
The department offers the award each spring, in recognition of exceptional contributions to the systems and industrial engineering profession and the UA SIE community.
Previous Awardees
- 2023: Cecilia Lluria-Gossler
- 2022: Brian Perry
- 2021: Mike O'Brien
- 2020: Ann Wilkey
- 2019: Marla Peterson
- 2018: Ted Landis
- 2017: Cindy Klingberg
- 2016: Herb Burton
Nayleth Ramirez Duarte, 2023 Recent Alumni of the Year Awardee
Recent Alumni Professional Achievement & Service Award
This award recognizes alumni that have graduated within the last five years.
- 2024: Eva Richter, Systems Engineering BS/2021
- 2023: Nayleth Ramirez Duarte, Systems Engineering BS/2022
Alumni Highlight
Realizing A Calling
Mike O’Brien, 2021 SIE alum of the year, graduated in 1996 and went on to work for companies such as Intel and Verizon.
"I had a lot of appreciation for math, and I knew I wanted something that kept an intersection of analytics and human interactions. One of my classmates described what a systems engineer does, and I soon realized my calling."
Claire Tompkins: Why We Need an Engineer in the White House
We engineers see the world a certain way. We build things and fix things. In some ways, that’s a good job description for a president. In some ways, that’s a good job description for a president.
During the her 2016 Engineers Breakfast keynote address, “Why We Need an Engineer in the White House,” SIE alumna Claire Tomkins – founder of Future Family, an online platform focused on helping women and couples navigate fertility issues – discussed how our technology- and science-based society needs leaders who understand technology and know how to leverage data.