Congratulations to our Tauber Alumni Scholarship Award winners

Ann Arbor, MI - Congratulations to Maria Gerrero (MBA) and Isabel Rolfe (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE), recipients of the 2023 Tauber Alumni Scholarships. The Tauber Alumni Board presented the awards at the SPOTLIGHT! 2023 Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition.

Tauber Alumni Board member Matt Gibson (MSE and PhD in biomedical engineering) presented the annual award. The Tauber Alumni Scholarship Fund endows scholarships that recognize current students for their leadership and involvement in Institute activities. Each year, the alumni scholarship is awarded at Spotlight! to students with at least six months of program experience and evidence of program involvement, thought leadership, industry engagement, and/or team & organizational leadership.

 

Maria Gerrero (MBA)

Operations and Supply Chains have always played an important role in my life. At a young age, I saw my dad struggle with logistics issues while running the family business in Mexico. This inspired me to learn how to improve any business from an operational perspective.

Master of Business Administration student Maria Gerrero has served on the Tauber Student Advisory Board as President, and she was featured in a Ross School of Business Profile of MBAs. For her Tauber team project, Maria spent the past summer working for BD (Becton, Dickinson), a dynamic global medical technology leader that touches billions of patients around the world. Her Tauber team's primary objective was to analyze the current process, identify pain points, and propose process/tool improvements to improve demand forecasting. 

Isabel Rolfe (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE)

Since the beginning of my undergrad, I have always felt that my career inclinations lean more toward the business side of my major. Tauber has provided me the opportunity to tap into my strong interests in business while applying my technical knowledge from my engineering degree. I am honored to be a part of such an impressive community, particularly as a member of the Student Advisory Board. 

Engineering Global Leadership student Isabel Rolfe is pursuing a Master of Engineering in Industrial and Operations Engineering. She has served on the Tauber Student Advisory Board as Industry Relations Chair. 

For her Tauber team project, Isabel worked with ConAgra, Inc. to optimize the frozen food supply chain by creating synergies across the brands ConAgra already offers and analyzed if a hub-and-spoke model is the best solution. 

The Tauber Institute for Global Operations is a joint venture between the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and Michigan Engineering, working together with industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. The Tauber Institute is an inaugural recipient of the UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics. For more information visit tauber.umich.edu.