William E. Biles is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at the University of Louisville. He has taught engineering at Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, Penn State, Louisiana State University and the University of Louisville for over 50 years. Prior to his career in engineering education, Dr. Biles served in the US Army and as an R&D engineer at the Advanced Materials Laboratory of Union Carbide Corporation, as well as a process engineer at the Huntsville, AL Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation. He founded the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory of the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Louisville in 1990 and established a graduate program in Engineering Management in Panama that has granted more than 500 MEEM degrees since 2000. Dr. Biles has directed the research of 18 PhD graduates in Industrial Engineering at Notre Dame, Penn State, LSU and UofL in his 50-year career in education. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.