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 Highlights
Success from the Source
Marla Peterson, a senior technical manager at Honeywell Aerospace, returned to campus for iExpo, an event that encourages networking between students and industry partners.
"We're looking for great student talent, and we know we can find it here."
Every Last Drop
Sergio Legy, director of automation and technology for the Bard Water District and Hector Nava, U of A software engineering alum (BS 2025) are helping preserve precious water in the Southwest with a system that remotely operates canal gates for greater water efficiency.
"The idea is for these gates to also communicate with each other and realize there is an overflow of water, and it can then redirect the water to a different location and help conserve that as well."
