Pamela McCauley Bell, Ph.D.

Dr. McCauley-Bell is a nationally recognized motivational speaker, entrepreneur, educator and technologist. Most recently, she authored “Winners Don’t Quit…Today they Call Me Doctor” and “The Winners Don’t Quit Kit”, a novel and empowerment package that inspires success academically, professionally and personally.  Dr. McCauley-Bell is also President and owner of Tech-Solutions, Inc., a small business that provides technical consulting and research services to government and private industry clients. Tech-Solutions specializes in the areas of operational test and evaluation, chem.-bio defense, ergonomics, safety, artificial intelligence, human factors and simulation.  

Dr. Pamela McCauley-Bell is a tenured Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida.  From January 1997 to June 199 she held the position of Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  A native of Oklahoma, Dr. McCauley-Bell obtained Bachelors, Masters, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. In fact, in 1993 Dr. McCauley-Bell became the first known African-American female to be granted a Ph.D. in the field of Engineering in the state of Oklahoma. Her engineering related research focus includes evaluation of development of human factors, expert systems development, fuzzy set theory, and the human impact in information security. She has received federal and state funding to conduct. She is the author of over 40 technical papers, book chapters and conference proceedings. Dr. McCauley-Bell serves a member of the editorial board for the journal of Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Sciences  (TIES), Associate Editor of the Industrial Engineering Encyclopedia and regularly referees technical research papers IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, International Journal of Industrial Hygienist, the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Conference Proceedings and Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Dr. McCauley-Bell was nominated and honored as an Olympic Torch Bearer – for the Olympic Torch Run for the Winter Olympic Games of 2002. Additional awards include the 2001 Summit Award, Honoring outstanding women in Central Florida and the 2000 Saturn Glamour “Women at their Best” Award. Dr. McCauley-Bell was the recipient of the Women of Color in Technology Award for Educational Leadership in 1999.  She has been described as an outstanding teacher. Her teaching efforts have also resulted in the receipt of both the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) in the 1996-’97 academic year. She is also involved in numerous campus and community service serving as the co-advisor to the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) as well as Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS).  In 1999 she was elected to the Board of Directors for the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN), a national organization that seeks to increase the presence of women in engineering.

Dr. McCauley-Bell is frequently invited to universities and communities to deliver technical lectures that share her enthusiasm about science and technology. One of her goals is to help young people, particularly minorities and women, understand the excitement, opportunities and enjoyment in pursuing a technical career.

Dr. McCauley-Bell is a motivational speaker traveling around the country to give inspirational lectures to conferences, universities, churches, community organizations and professional societies. She shares her story of determination, faith in God, and diligence to achieve her goals despite financial difficulties, disappointments, and being a teen mother. Her activities have led to recognition in national publications including Career Engineer, Ebony, Essence, Jet, Lears, Magazine and U.S. Black Engineer. Dr. McCauley-Bell was the Student Leadership category winner in the 1989 Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. Dr. McCauley-Bell has a twenty-six old daughter, Annette and is the daughter of Maurice Sr., and LaFrance McCauley, of Oklahoma City, OK.

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