Friends, family and peers gathered on April 10 to celebrate honorees at the 2025 Industrial and Systems Engineering Awards Banquet, held in the O’Quinn Great Hall at the University of Houston Athletics/Alumni Center.
Following opening remarks from Gino Lim, Professor & R. Larry and Gerlene (Gerri) R. Snider Endowed Chair, the keynote speech was given by Nancy J. Currie-Gregg (’97), Ph.D., Director of the Texas A&M University Space Institute and former NASA astronaut.
The following awards were given out at the banquet:
- ISE Chair’s Leadership Award: Abdulrahman Aljahmi (’24, BSIE), Process Improvement Engineer for Atlas Copco
- ISE Outstanding Alumni Award: Arun Adat (’05 M.S.), Vice President of Global Operations for HPE
- ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni Award: Eric Ayanegui (’95 BSIE), Senior Director of Operations for CINTAS
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
- ISE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: Wissam Al Ali, Ph.D. student
- ISE Outstanding Staff Award: Sharon Hall
- ISE Outstanding Instructor Award: Yaping Wang
- ISE Agrawal Endowed Scholarship Graduate Students: Venkat Chary Guntoju, Nidhin Mammen, Pranav Adithya Narayanan, Bhaskar Pavan Jampana and Gowtham Seerapu
- ISE Agrawal Endowed Scholarship Undergraduate Students: Leah Jobby and Alexia Robert
- Agrawal Association of America Scholarships: Tugce Uslu Aktas, Venkata Somadatta Gandhavalla and Kaituo Zhang
- Brij & Sunita Agrawal Scholarships: Sampa Halder, Tong Li and Zirui Tong
- Hall IE Endowed Scholarship: Parsa Nasirisefat
- IE Various Donor Scholarship: Kishan Sapariya and Youssef Alchall
- L. Xavier & Maria Cano Leadership Scholarship: Reagan Kimberly
- PVF Roundtable Endowed Scholarships: Sai Karthik Dandamudi, Venkataswamy Goda, Praneeth Lingala, Fahama Sabhi Mohammad, Fariha Torsha, Fiorella Compos Perez and Cherrene Framo
- PVF Roundtable Scholarships: Muhammad Ashraf, Farzane Ezzati, Daksh Patel, Chuyue Wang, Jun Zhou, Yihan Zhou, Chris Aziz, Maria Barrientos Alvarado, Elijah Lozano and Jose Tovar
- Sam Scharff IE Scholarships: Sama Abdo and Stella Alexandre Garcia
- Shoaleh Shirvani & Asghar Nosrati Endowed Scholarship: Farzane Ezzati
Many thanks to the support of our event sponsors: Cintas, the Cullen College of Engineering’s Lean Six Sigma Program, and the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
For a full photo gallery from the event, click here. Congratulations to all of the award winners!