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Dr. James Hay Black (1923 - 1986) Dr. Black was born in Pittsburgh, PA. in 1923. He was a WWII veteran in the Army Corps of Engineers serving in the Pacific. He Earned an A.B. from Cornell University, and a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. A registered engineer in Pennsylvania, he was one of the founding members of the AACE, American Association of Cost Engineers, as well as being a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Institute of Chemists. While in Pittsburgh he worked for Koppers Company, U.S. Steel Corporation, Standard Oil Company, and Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. He moved to Alabama in 1963 with his family to take a professorship in the Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL., and remained there until his death in 1986.