Alumnus Receives Flinn-Brown Fellowship

Bradley Williams, who received his MS in systems engineering from the UA Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering in 2018, has been named one of 30 members of the 2019 class of the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy.

Flinn-Brown fellows have opportunities to expand their knowledge, skills and networks to help address Arizona’s long-term issues.

Williams earned his UA bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2013 and now works as a project manager at the UA’s Steward Observatory, executing several of the funded and proposed NASA missions at both the observatory and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. 

“My UA education taught me to problem solve,” he said. “It provided me with a skill set and the ability to face problems that I’m not necessarily comfortable with, and to know you don’t have to be an expert in a room. I have a skill set to be able to solve a problem, even if I’m not an expert.”