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!
SIE Alumni of the Year Award
Honoring Exceptional Graduates
Know an outstanding alumnus or alumna? Recommend them for the SIE Alumni of the Year 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 winners include Herb Burton, Cindy Klingberg, Ted Landis, Marla Peterson, Ann Wilkey and Mike O’Brien.
Alumni Highlights
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.