Five Penn State Smeal College of Business supply chain students were awarded distinguished fellowships by the MIT Supply Chain Management master’s program.
Reilly McCarthy and Coyne McDermott, recent supply chain and information systems graduates, each earned the MIT Supply Chain Excellence Award. Upon enrollment in the MIT Supply Chain Management (SCM) master’s program, they will receive a $30,000 fellowship to go toward tuition reduction.
Kailey McSteen, a senior in supply chain and information systems with a minor in legal environment of business; Hannah Pais, a senior in supply chain and information systems with minors in economics and real estate analysis and development certificate; and Emma Scott, a senior in supply chain and information systems, each earned a $15,000 tuition fellowship and honorable mentions recognition.
The MIT Supply Chain Excellence Award fellowships are given annually to high achieving graduating senior supply chain and/or industrial engineering majors at selected universities. The 2024 MIT Supply Chain Excellence Awards program has provided more than $900,000 in fellowship funding to this year’s 35 recipients.
Through a collaboration with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, the university partner program selects students from respected universities such as Penn State University, Arizona State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Lehigh University, Michigan State University, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Mexico), Purdue University, and Texas A&M University.
After gaining two to five years of professional experience, the winners may redeem their fellowships by applying and being admitted to the MIT SCM program. Fellowship awards may be applied toward SCM master’s program tuition at MIT, or at MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence network centers in Spain, Malaysia, Luxembourg or China.