Otieno, Wilkistar

otieno@uwm.edu

(414) 229-3134

Eng & Math Sciences 1061

• LEC Teaching Fellows

Wilkistar Otieno is an Associate Professor and Chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include data analytics applied to manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing particularly remanufacturing, reliability engineering and overall systems optimization. She has a passion for engineering education and is a principal investigator of an NSF STEM grant and serves as a long-term faculty mentor for the UWM Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation, also an NSF grant.

She is also passionate about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) matters and serves on the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences ) DEI Subcommittee.

She served as the IEEE-Milwaukee Chair from 2018-2020 and was named the 2022 STEM Forward Engineer of the Year.

Fun Fact:

Dr. Otieno set out to run marathons in as many States as possible but stopped at eleven due to injuries.

I can offer...

• Workshops on analytics with engineering applications
• Panel discussions on STEM engineering education
• Panel discussion on matters of DEI.

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