The MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards are given annually to outstanding graduating supply chain management or industrial engineering majors at select institutions that have partnered with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics’s Supply Chain Management master’s program to expand opportunities for students to pursue graduate study and advance the field of supply chain and logistics.

Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz, the Executive Director of the MIT SCM master’s program, described the celebration as “a way to recognize the excellence of the undergraduate students from the partner universities we have with us. We have been working with these universities for more than a decade to recognize all of this talent, energy, and potential in terms of leadership and future impact on the supply chain world.”

Dr. Saenz was joined by supply chain management and engineering faculty and department chairs from Arizona State University, Lehigh University, Michigan State University, Monterrey Tech (Mexico), Penn State University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, Howard University, and Texas A&M University to recognize the fellowship recipients from their respective programs.

The program also featured remarks from a previous Supply Chain Excellence award recipient who is currently completing her master’s degree at MIT. Morgan DeHaan, who was awarded a fellowship in 2018, said,, “The award is a huge accomplishment, and I hope that you all feel very proud of yourselves and excited about the opportunity to study here at MIT in just a few short years.”

Concluding the ceremony, Dr. Saenz told awardees, “We are happy to be able to recognize this excellence with all these brilliant students and also to help them in their journey to provide a great footprint in the supply chain industry.”

This year, the MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards program has provided more than $1.1 million in fellowship funding to 51 awardees from Arizona State University, Howard University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Lehigh University, Michigan State University, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Mexico), Penn State University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, and Texas A&M University.

Awardees can redeem their awards by applying and being admitted to the SCM program after gaining two to five years of postgraduate professional experience. Fellowship awards may be applied toward SCM master’s program tuition at MIT, or at MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network centers in Spain, Malaysia, Luxembourg, or China.