TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama Institute of Industrial Engineers’ student chapter received the Gold Award in the 2006 IIE national chapter recognition competition. Since 2001, UA’s IIE chapter has received four gold awards and one silver award.
The Gold Award is the highest chapter recognition award from IIE, and it recognizes chapter improvements and progress. Only nine out of the more than 115 student chapters in the United States received the gold award. UA’s chapter was the only one in the state to receive the gold award.
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 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.
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Mary Wymer, Engineering Media Relations, 205/348-6444, mwymer@eng.ua.edu