Louis Martin Vega

Dean of Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has been Director of the Design, Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Division of the National Science Foundation NSF. Executive Assistant Director of Engineering at NSF in Arlington, Virginia. Consultant for several private companies and government organizations. He has been especially dedicated to research in the areas of production programming and semiconductor manufacturing systems.

Professor and Director of the Department of Industrial Systems and Manufacturing in Engineering — Leigh University — Bethlehem, PA. Professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Lockheed Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) Melbourne, FL. Professor at the College of Engineering at the University of Florida.

Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers SME; American Society for Engineering Education ASEE; Institute of Industrial Engineers IIE; INFORMS Institute for Operational Research and Management Sciences.

More than 50 articles published in the Journal of Manufacturing Systems; HE Transactions; IEEE Transactions in Semiconductors Manufacturing; and other specialized journals.

He received the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Award — Higher Education Category. Albert Holzman Award for Best Educator in Industrial Engineering awarded by the IIE, Institute of Industrial Engineers. Several NSF distinctions.

Industrial Engineer — BSIE, University of Puerto Rico (Mayaguez) 1969.

Master, MS in Operations Research, University of New Cork, 1971.

Doctor Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 1975.

Dean of Engineering at the University of South Florida.