June 30, 2016 Several Wildcats Tracking for Olympics, Paralympics With fewer than 40 days to go until Rio, a number of current and former UA student-athletes have qualified for the 2016 Games.
June 18, 2016 Systems and Industrial Engineering Department Presents First Alumni Award to Herb Burton Retired Bell Labs executive was the first graduate of what became the first accredited systems engineering program in the U.S.
May 17, 2016 UA Establishes Transportation Research Institute The University is bringing together an interdisciplinary team of researchers to address the many challenges of a rapidly evolving "transportation ecosystem."
April 7, 2016 Connected-Vehicles Visionary Wins Grad Slam Three UA doctoral students collected $6,000 in prize money during the second annual Grad Slam competition, hosted by the UA's Graduate College, Graduate Center and Graduate and Professional Student Council.
April 6, 2016 College Names Larry Head 2016 da Vinci Fellow University of Arizona College of Engineering honors trailblazer in advanced transportation.
April 6, 2016 Team Revs Up Transportation’s Internet of Things Connected vehicles are on the horizon, and researchers in the UA College of Engineering are making sure roadway infrastructures are up to speed for all types of vehicles to communicate with one another.
March 23, 2016 Systems Engineering Graduate Student Wins Officer Research Fellowship UA doctoral candidate Lt. Col. Matthew Dabkowski has received a 2016 Omar N. Bradley Officer Research Fellowship in Mathematics, and will join the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Feb. 1, 2016 UA-Built Concussion App in NCAA Competition Sports-related concussions are now part of the national conversation, and a team of UA researchers — including football players Jason Sweet and Scooby Wright — is teaching athletes to recognize and report the signs.
Jan. 26, 2016 UA Traffic Engineer Larry Head Wins Best Paper Award from Transportation Research Board SIE Professor Larry Head receives a second D. Grant Mickle Award for best paper from the U.S. Transportation Research Board, and his former student wins the first-ever award for best dissertation from a Chinese transportation organization.
Jan. 22, 2016 Students Program Soccer-Playing Robots with Help of UA Professor UA Engineering researcher Ricardo Valerdi, a professor in the department of systems and industrial engineering, teaches engineering principles to middle school students by showing them how to build autonomous soccer-playing robots.