Two Lead Authors! Rennard and Bretz

 Two Honors College students recently each published articles in the Proceedings of the 9th North American Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Washington DC, USA, June 4-6, 2024.

Noah Bretz (above) was lead author (with Hayder Zghair and Jeffrey Sumner) of: 

Machining variables optimization for sustainability manufacturing.

Zachary Rennard (above) was lead author (with Hayder Zghair and Jeffrey Sumner) of:

Power consumption optimization for substainable manufacturing operation.

Way to go! Publishing as an undergraduate is unusual and demonstrates a willingness to go the extra mile.

Honors Arkansas Retreat 2024

SAU's Honors College department members attended the sixth annual Honors Arkansas Retreat at Mt. Magazine State Park this past weekend. Members from various honors departments across Arkansas met to discuss the current state of honors, as well as goals and plans for Honors Arkansas in the future. 

Honors Arkansas plans to host a research class in the Spring of 2025 discussing various Health and Wellness topics. This research class will be available to attend virtually on Tuesdays from 5-6 pm.  

It was announced that there will be a virtual session on Perfectionism on September 4th at 4 pm, hosted by the Council on Honors Education (CoHE). There will also be a virtual panel discussion about the crisis in Sudan on October 22nd at 2 pm, which will be hosted by UAF. 

The SAU Honors department members use these annual retreats to gain a deeper outlook on all of Honors Arkansas and develop new ideas to implement into the Honors College at SAU. 

        Pictured above are the Honors Arkansas 2024 Retreat attendees