The Material Handling Equipment Distributors' Association (MHEDA) will sponsor Dr Barry Lawrence to serve as a committee member for the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE).

Dr Lawrence is an associate professor with the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University, and a director of the Supply Chain Systems Laboratory of Texas A&M.

CICMHE is an independent organisation that prepares and provides information and teaching materials and conducts various events in support of material handling education and research. The council is composed of college and university educators, primarily teaching engineering-based subjects.

MHEDA accepted CICMHE's invitation to sponsor a professor to serve on the committee. Dr Lawrence would be MHEDA's representative, the association said.