Moumita Saha Awarded P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship

The Graduate College is pleased to announce that Moumita Saha, master’s student in industrial engineering, has received the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS). The International Peace Scholarship Fund provides scholarships of up to $12,500 for women from other countries to study at the graduate level in the United States and Canada. Members of P.E.O. believe that education is fundamental to world peace and understanding.

Moumita is from Bangladesh, where she earned her B.Sc. in industrial and production engineering from Khula University of Engineering and Technology (KUET). As an undergraduate, Moumita received the KUET student merit scholarship though four years of academic excellence from the Government of Bangladesh.

Moumita is interested in improving the lives of women working in industrial factories in her home country by studying ergonomics. Her specific research interests are human factors and ergonomics, facility location, optimization and health care management.

Moumita’s advice to prospective applicants is to “dream big” because one person’s dream can encourage more people to bring good in the world. Once she completes her master’s degree, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and apply that knowledge in the real world to bring good changes, especially for women.