Alumni

With over 8,000 graduates in all 50 states and 57 countries, the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech is committed to building a strong network of ISE Hokies across the globe.

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Alumni Map

Map of reported Virginia Tech ISE Alumni locations as of July 2019

Alumni News

With the COVID-19 outbreak, Alumna Lt. Col. Kara M. Cave '19, is using her expertise to help ensure that Fort Rucker's flight school in Alabama, can safely continue to train Aviation professionals (June 2020)

Alumnus Haller G. Prillaman '55, member of the ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni and the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Academy of Engineering Excellence, has passed away (June, 2020)

Scott Moon '89 launches new consulting firm, eMate Consulting, with partners (June, 2020)

Walter Barnes '00 awarded the 2020 Virginia Tech Influential Black Alumni Award for Outstanding Entrepreneur (May, 2020)

Walter Lee '13 awarded the 2020 Virginia Tech Influential Black Alumni Award for Outstanding Recent Alumnus (May, 2020)

Danny Joe Long '56, member of the ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni, has passed away (November, 2019)

B. Fielding Rolston '69, member of the ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni and recipient of the Marvin H. Agee Distinguished Alumnus Award, has passed away (September, 2019)

ISE alumna, Mallory Freeman '07, has been promoted to Principal Data Scientist within the UPS Advanced Technology Group in Atlanta, Georgia. She will be responsible for managing the ATG Data Modeling Group

ISE alumnus, Jerry Hogge '91, on his new appointment at MITRE. He will be responsible for business strategy, international programs, and sponsor engagement with MITRE’s federally funded R&D centers for civilian agencies.

ISE alumna, Dr. Betty Chao, has been inducted into the College of Engineering's Academy of Engineering Excellence (May, 2019)

Codan Communications appoints Scott French '91, new President and Executive General Manager of Land Mobile Radio Division (April, 2019)

New members of the ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni announced (April, 2019)

First recipients of the Emerging Leaders Award announced (April, 2019)

Three-time ISE alumnus, C. Richard Cassady, recognized with distinguished leadership award at the University of Arkansas (March, 2019)

Maria A. Bothwell '90 has been appointed as President and CEO of Toffler Associates. (January, 2019)

ISE alumnus, Jay Merkle '88, has been named the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office
(December, 2018)

Morgan Blackwood Patel '02 was named one of DCA Live's New Power Women of Real Estate. (September, 2018)

Mary Hill '10, an operations manager for Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc., (SPA) has been recognized as one of the "35 under 35" in the space industry. (August, 2018)

ISE alumna Amanda Kauder chosen as board member of newly-created Applied Ergonomics Society (July 5, 2018)

ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni honors seven new inductees (June 29, 2018)