The team — including recent doctoral graduate Cesar Ruiz, professor Ed Pohl and professor Haitao Liao — was selected for the William A. Golomski Award.

Two interdisciplinary teams of engineering students took home prizes from national "hackathon" competitions during the fall of 2020.

The U of A will participate with Garver to build a compendium of practices and strategies to improve airport security during construction projects.

Xinchao Liu, a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Engineering, received the 2nd prize in the Poster Competition at the 2020 NextGen Data Science Day conference.

Industrial Engineering students and faculty received a variety of honors at a national conference of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers.

Greg Parnell, who directs the Master of Science in Operations and Master of Science in Engineering Management programs, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the J. Steinhardt Prize.

Professor Manuel Rossetti has been awarded 2020 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers' Modeling and Simulation Division Teaching Award.

Carrie Beam, teaching associate professor and the 2021 INFORMS Edelman Prize Chair, on how to leverage cutting-edge operations management techniques to maximize organizational performance.

Walt DeGrange, instructor in the Master of Science in Operations Management program, will give a webinar on "Sports Analytics: Putting the Fun Back Into Analytics" at noon Wednesday.

The scholarship program is designed to enhance and increase the graduation rate of underrepresented STEM undergraduate students who are interested in careers in data science.