In 1962 Fabrycky received his PhD in engineering from Oklahoma State University where he was awarded an Ethyl Corporation Doctoral Fellowship.
[1] In 2006, Fabrycky founded, endowed, and was later Chairman Emeritus of Omega Alpha: the International Systems Engineering Honor Society.
Fabrycky was president of Alpha Pi Mu and a long time member of its Executive Council.
Other honor societies to which he contributed were the Order of the Engineer, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.
[3] Fabrycky was author of almost two dozen textbook editions, revisions, and translations in Industrial and Systems Engineering, including: For more than a half-century, Wolter Fabrycky was a diligent Prentice Hall (now Pearson Prentice Hall) author, reviewer, and editor of the PPH International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering.