UA Engineering Professor Selected as Regional Vice President of IIE

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Paul S. Ray, professor of industrial engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently selected as vice president for Region Three of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Ray was selected to serve in this role through March 2008. IIE’s Region Three includes 17 student and eight professional chapters in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Puerto Rico.

Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research and development of industrial engineering.

In addition to being appointed as vice president for IIE’s Region Three, Ray has served as adviser for the only nationally accepted industrial engineering honor society, Alpha Pi Mu, since 1990.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 95 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.