UA College of Engineering Staff Member Receives National Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Gregory Singleton, director of engineering student services for The University of Alabama College of Engineering, recently received the 2004 Motorola MEP Legacy Builder’s Award.

Recipients of this annual award are recognized by Motorola for their contribution toward increasing the talent pool of men and women in engineering and technology. The award, given to two recipients each year, was presented at the 30th annual National Society of Black Engineers’ National Convention in Dallas.

Singleton was nominated by the board of directors of the National Association of Minority Engineering Program Administrators for his efforts in helping to establish the multicultural engineering program at UA. He also served as NAMEPA national president in 1998-2002 and has received many honors, including UA’s NSBE Most Outstanding Faculty award, the Autherine Lucy Foster award and the John L. Blackburn award, all presented by the University.

Singleton was instrumented in establishing UA’s multicultural engineering program in 1987. Currently, more than 18 percent of the College of Engineering’s undergraduate population are minorities (African-American, Hispanic and Native American).

The National Society of Black Engineers is a non-profit, student-managed society comprised of more than 400chapters, national and international, dedicated to the academic and professional success of African-American engineering and technical students and professionals.

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.