Alpha Pi Mu

Alpha Pi Mu (ΑΠΜ) is an American honor society for Industrial and Systems Engineering students.

The founder of Alpha Pi Mu was James T. French, who in 1949 was a senior industrial engineering student at Georgia Tech.

Alpha Pi Mu is the only nationally accepted industrial engineering honor society.

[1] The Georgia Tech engineers who led the initial developmental work wanted an organization to provide a common ground "on which their outstanding young engineers could exchange ideas," and to provide experiences which could help their future professional development.

[3] French chose the Greek letter name Alpha Pi Mu to represent the three major areas of Industrial Engineering at the time: Administration, Production, and Methods.

Alpha Pi Mu marker at the Georgia Institute of Technology