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CONTENTS US BLACK ENGINEER & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BRINGING TECHNOLOGY HOME TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY

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HBCUs graduate 33 percent of our nation’s Black engineers.

Meet the engineering deans who are helping to develop and shape our future engineers.

Dr. Heshmat Aglan, P.E. Dean, College of Engineering Tuskegee University

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DEPARTMENTS People and Events.............. 6 Exciting highlights of recent promotions, breaking news on HBCU campuses, and major events happening in the STEM community.

One on One ....................... 10

In 1987, Lanny Smoot won the Most Promising Engineer award at the very first BEYA Conference. Today, he is one of Disney’s top innovators.

Education .......................... 14 4 HBCUs showcase the amazing projects coming out of their institutions.

Corporate Life.................... 16

Some are born leaders, but most people can learn how. Identify strategies you can use to unleash the leader in you.

Career Voices .................... 18

Staying true to yourself isn’t always easy, especially when you are a young professional. These Northrop Grumman employees share their experiences on the road to success.

Leading Voices...................34

• Captain David Bridges - Inspiring Youth into Aviation • Olabisi Boyle - The Internet of Things and Commerce • Dr. Lara Thompson - Falls and Aging: The Need for NexGen Biomedical Solutions

HBCU ENGINEERING SCHOOLS HAVE DONE A LOT LATELY In this edition of US Black Engineer magazine, you will meet the new engineering deans at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as well as longerserving academic leaders of the 15 ABET-accredited schools. A decade ago, students in HBCU engineering schools were reinventing filters to keep pathogens out of water systems, chasing quantum dots through landfills into aquifers, emulating beavers to design water purification systems, and reengineering transportation.

At the 2020 BEYA STEM Conference, the theme for the HBCU Engineering Deans Council was quite appropriate for the start of a new decade: “Catalysts for a Better Future.”

“The contribution we are making to our strength as a nation and our economic impact on students, companies, communities, and our country cannot be overstated,” said Dr. Robin Coger, dean of the College of Engineering and chair of the Council of Engineering Deans of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. “We are catalysts for great progress and for the multicultural realization of hopes and dreams,” she said.

The deans went on to list advancements being generated on HBCU campuses even though universities nationwide get over $4 billion in STEM funding annually, and HBCUs receive only 0.4 percent of that. On these pages, you will read about innovation and ingenuity. HBCUs are blazing new trails in research with students and scholars firmly at the center of programs funded by leading federal agencies, as well as industry.

In addition, the 18th annual survey of engineering school deans has identified private sector nonprofit organizations that the engineering deans and members of AMIE, the corporate-academic alliance, consider to be most supportive. “As we begin this new decade together, it is exciting to continue to build upon our legacy and celebrate our rich heritage of accomplishment,” Coger said at the Deans Power Breakfast. Read on and be inspired!

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Career Outlook..................39 Careers in Engineering • 2020 HBCU ABET-Accredited Engineering School Directory • Meet the 2020 HBCU STEM Innovations Award honorees • What role do HBCUs play in crafting America’s STEM workforce?

• Where sre the opportunities in technology commercialization for HBCUs?

On the cover: Front row L-R are Dawit Haile, professor of mathematics and computer science, and dean of the College of Engineering and Techncology, Virginia State University; Devdas Shetty, dean and professor, University of the District of Columbia, Dr. Joyce T. Shirazi, dean, School of Engineering and Technology, Hampton University; and Dr. Patrick E. Carrriere, dean, College of Sciences and Engineering, Southern University A&M. In the second row are Dr. Wilbur L. Walters, dean, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University; Dr. Pamela Holland Obiomon, dean and full professor and Roy G. Perry College of Engineering dean, Praiirie View A&M State University; and Dr. Robin N. Coger, dean of the College of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. In the third row are John M.M. Anderson, interim dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University; Dr. Michael Keeve, dean, College of Science, Engineering, and Technology and professor of mathematics, Norfolk State University; and Dr. Heshmat A. Aglan, dean and professor, College of Engineering, Tuskegee University. Top row are Dr. Derrek B. Dunn, professor and dean, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Business and Technology; Dr. Z.T. Deng, interim dean and professor, College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences, Alabama A&M State University; and Dr. Craig Scott, interim dean, School of Engineering Morgan State University.

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PROFESSIONALS ON THE MOVE Dr. Darryll J. Pines Named University of Maryland’s 34th President The University of Maryland first broke the news on Twitter on February 12. Dr. Pines’s tenure at the public research university in College Park, MD begins on July 1.

In an announcement from the Office of the Chancellor, Jay A. Perman, MD praised Pines’s long and distinguished service to UMD. “This is the first major appointment since I became chancellor, and it’s something that I felt we had to get absolutely right—so I couldn’t be more pleased to see Darryll Pines appointed as the next president of the University of Maryland, College Park,” Perman said.

In 2019, Pines was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his “inspirational leadership and contributions to engineering education.”

Board of Regents Chair Linda Gooden said in a statement that “Dr. Pines brings to the position a wealth of experience. I know I speak for the entire board when I say we’ve found precisely the right person for this important job—College Park will indeed be in good hands.”

Pines has served as both dean and the Nariman Farvardin Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Clark School since January 2009.

Making History in Business Education Come July 1, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the business school at Penn, will also have a new dean. Erika James, currently the dean of Emory’s business school, will become the new dean of the Wharton School, according to a press release issued by Penn. She holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree in organizational psychology 6

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Dr. Darryll J. Pines, President, University of Maryland

from the University of Michigan and received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges, in California.

In addition to her roles at Emory and University of Virginia Darden School of Business, she has served as an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School.

“This is an exciting time to be in business education,” James said in the press release. “The scope and platform of the Wharton School provide an opportunity to create a far-reaching impact for students, scholars, and the business community.” In 2014, James assumed her deanship at Goizueta, becoming the first Black woman to head a top 25 United States business school.. S

Dr. Erika James, Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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NC State Engineering Alumnus Is Named President of George Mason University North Carolina (NC) State University College of Engineering News announced in February that Dr. Gregory Washington, a three-time graduate of the College of Engineering at NC State, has been named the eighth president of George Mason University (GMU).

GMU’s Board of Visitors made the appointment earlier the same week. Washington will join George Mason on July 1. Most recently, he served as the dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from NC State and is currently a member of the NC State Engineering Foundation’s board of directors.

Dr. Gregory Washington, President, George Mason University

“I am honored to accept this position and thrilled to lead Mason at this exciting time,” Washington said. “What attracted me to Mason was its reputation for having real impact, providing access, and for its commitment to inclusive excellence. Those values are in direct alignment with how I operate as an academic leader. I look forward to helping continue to accelerate the trajectory of the institution.”

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MAKING THE PROMISE OF BEYA: MEET A FIRST-EVER WINNER Lanny Smoot Disney Research Fellow Disney Research

the award and seeing other folks who were aspiring as I was to do well.

BEYA handed out its first awards at a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) conference held in 1987. The event was organized by Career Communications Group’s Black Engineer magazine and engineering deans from historically Black colleges and universities to advance STEM. Recipients of the inaugural Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) included Dr. John Slaughter, the first Black Engineer of the Year, and Lanny Smoot, one of the first Most Promising Engineer Award winners at BEYA. In 2019, Smoot, now a research fellow at Disney Research, gave an interview to USBE magazine. The BEYA winner spoke about his award, which still sits on his desk, as well as the rewards of engineering as a career over the last three decades.

Smoot was an engineer at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) when he won the Most Promising Engineer Award in 1987. By then, he had earned three patents in the fields of optical communications and subscriber loop career system. He had also started a program at Bell Labs for minorities 10

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and leaders working with summer interns.

As manager of the Broadband Network Technologies Research District, he managed research on optical telecommunications systems and high-speed switching systems. Some of his achievements included leading a research group responsible for a system that allowed several channels of high-quality digital video information to be distributed via optical fiber to telecommunication subscribers. Smoot earned patent applications for new ways of solving traffic tie-ups in highspeed self-routing packet switches that send data through a network, much as one would send a letter through a public mail system. Spurts of data are sent with an address and delivered through a network, with very little or no centralized intervention by the network.

BEYA One: ‘A Wonderful Experience’ “BEYA One was a wonderful experience,” Smoot recalled. “Winning the award was both great for me to attend the ceremony where I received

“Bellcore had done its best to recruit African Americans and other underrepresented groups. Winning an award like that, which was covered in the local Bell Communications Research newspaper, is wonderful for the person winning it. It was great.

But it was more important that other young Black folks who attended the awards see that people just like them, in my case engineering, can do the same things.”

“It was 30 years ago,” continued Smoot.

“I remember the pride in having won the award. More so I remember people looked at the award as achievable by ordinary human beings. That to me is the legacy effect. Somehow, I made the promise of the award,” he noted, adding that BEYA means you have been selected from other folks who are amazing.

Take, for example, Jim West, who won a Lifetime Achievement Award at BEYA and was a mentor to Smoot at Bell Labs. “He is an African American and the inventor of the electret microphone,” Smoot said. “You and I are on a conference call right now, recording this. And I’m speaking through a telephone. You may be speaking into an iPhone, iPad, or another device. I guarantee you that it has an electret microphone in it.

Many people don’t know that. Over the last 30 or 40 years, that’s been the predominant technology. Every single telephone in the United States now uses an electret microphone.”

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“It is everyone’s responsibility, that everyone has a shot at making contributions to society,” he said.

“It’s a waste if you have intelligent, smart, eager young people who want to go into technical fields and are stopped—not because they can’t do the work, but because they just don’t know about opportunities.” an award. White was the architect of the U.S. telephone network, Smoot said. Back then, he explained, Bellcore would have a single person responsible for design of the telephone networks.

And Pat White, an African American, became one of those architects. “All the networks of the United States were in his hands. Not a lot of people know that. So, having the award was letting people know of the contributions of Black folks,” Smoot said. “Programs like BEYA make people more aware of the

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contributions that African Americans make to society.”

The first annual BEYA Conference took place on the campus of Morgan State University. Planned to coincide with National Engineers Week, BEYA also serves historically as a tribute to Black History Month. BEYA recognizes past and present contributions of Black Americans to engineering.

Career Communications Group CEO and chairman of the BEYA STEM Conference Tyrone Taborn said that in 1987, many students couldn’t get internships. “Most had never met an engineer who looked like them until they got to college. Engineering deans of Morgan State, Howard University, and I decided to change the narrative.”

‘BEYA raises the consciousness for things that Black people achieve regularly’ Over 34 years, the BEYA Conference has exposed more students to role models in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers.

More than 10,000 men and women have been nominated for Black Engineer of the Year Awards; 957 have received category awards, and 34 have been selected as Black Engineer of the Year.

“When I look at winners, especially of the Black Engineer of the Year Award, these are amazing people,” Smoot noted. “BEYA raises the consciousness for things that Black people achieve regularly but are overlooked.

Smoot said because of his own experience in not being aware of opportunities he could have taken advantage of, he formed an employee resource group (ERG) for Black laboratory employees and their families, an ERG that ultimately had corporate support. He stressed that he has carried his drive for diversity and

inclusion throughout his career.

Growing opportunities in virtual reality and augmented reality At Disney, where he serves as a Disney research fellow, one of a select group that can pursue their ideas wherever they might lead, he attends ERG meetings and also does outreach, speaking at high schools and recruiting at minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities.

“It is everyone’s responsibility, that everyone has a shot at making contributions to society,” he said. “It’s a waste if you have intelligent, smart, eager young people who want to go into technical fields and are stopped— not because they can’t do the work, but because they just don’t know about opportunities.”

Smoot said he tries to do as much as he can to get young people interested in science and technologies that make the world work. He said parents must understand their children can do anything. “Your children are the future and will build the new world we’re going into,” he advised. “You only get good at something by doing it.”

To students, he recommended growing opportunities in virtual reality and augmented reality.

“Virtual reality, where you put the headset on and are completely immersed in another world, and augmented reality, where you are being helped by a pair of glasses that show you what you need to know as you’re walking down the street, or anywhere in the world,” Smoot said. S

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HALL OF INNOVATION DEBUTS! HBCUs show off Major Research at BEYA

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t’s been more than 30 years since Pamela McCauley, Ph.D. won a Student Leadership Award at BEYA. She was nominated for earning a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and then landing a $90,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Creativity Fellowship. According to the NSF, research experience is one of the most effective avenues for preparing students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program features interaction of students across the country with faculty and/ or other research mentors at REU sites to help increase the number of underrepresented minorities and firstgeneration college students in research.

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Left: The Hall of Innovations display. Right: From left to right: Dr. Kofi Nyarko, Dr. Pawan Tyagi, Dr. Victor McCrary, Dr. Vijay Rangari, and Dr. Zhengtao Deng.

for posters, exhibits, and academic presentations featuring research programs in science and engineering.

“The BEYA Hall of Innovation promotes achievement,” said Jennifer Roberts, who organized the 2020 research experience at BEYA. “It began with an idea from Dr. (Tyrone) Taborn and grew from there.”

Roberts is the customer success manager at Career Communications Group, Inc., producer of Black Engineer magazine’s biggest annual event.

“Thursdays at BEYA is often centered on colleges and universities,” Roberts said. “Over the next two years, we will be rotating through the research programs and the 15 ABET-accredited HBCUs.” Engineering schools that took part this year included Alabama A&M University, Morgan State University, Tuskegee

University, and the University of the District of Columbia.

“The project was an advertisement of the skill and personnel at featured institutions, and the type of research that can be done at HBCUs, to prospective students and researchers,” Roberts said.

Research projects in the BEYA Hall of Innovation ranged from smart cities to nanomaterials, sensor networks, and materials research.

“Suppose that you could have any electronic gadget that is available on demand. Suppose that you could make a biomedical sensor or detector look like anything you wanted, then produce it on the spot. The Morningbird Media Corporation (MBM) Electronic Alchemy (EA) eForge printer will make this a www.blackengineer.com

For more than three decades, BEYA has worked with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to provide conference participants a space for posters, exhibits, and academic presentations featuring research programs in science and engineering. reality,” said Dr. Zhengtao Deng, interim dean and professor in the College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Science, Alabama A&M University.

“Under the support of the NASA STTR program, Alabama A&M University has been collaborating with MBM in the development of the prototype EA eForge printer using a unique additive manufacturing technique for the direct 3D multi-materials printing of functional electronics.”

The NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program also funds research, development, and demonstration of innovative technologies that fulfill NASA needs

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at nonprofits such as universities and have significant potential for successful commercialization.

Deng presented the AAMU-NASA Bearing Test Rig Project. The aim is to design and build a low rotational speed and low axial load bearing test rig that simulates the relationship between bearing defect frequencies and contact angle variations for high-speed turbo pumps.

“Our goal was to provide an application through which little additional expenditure would need to be made in order to gain from intelligence of a building,” said Kofi Nyarko, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State. “The intelligence ability of the building is to know not only the number of occupants, but where they are, what activity is like, and then raise that level of awareness throughout the entire building. And not going beyond installing the lighting fixtures.”

Nyarko said the innovation would work for people who wanted to locate packages, or any kind of asset, in buildings. “This would work well anywhere from stock rooms/supply rooms to hospitals. The ability to do localization of people or assets with minimal cost is advantageous,” he said.

From the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Dr. Pawan Tyagi’s research featured nanoscale devices.

He is the first researcher to discover magnetic metamaterials that exhibit intriguing properties such as room temperature current suppression, solar cell effect, etc. Tyagi is the founding director of nano technology and nanoscale laboratories that have been utilized to train 30 undergraduate students and four graduate students.

He is also project director of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Center

of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), providing support for the Ph.D. program at UDC and expected to support more than 15 doctoral students over the next five years. As a consortium director, Tyagi is interfacing UDC and other partner HBCUs with industries such as the Kansas City Nuclear Security Complex, Y12, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanoparticles are widely used in biomedical and polymer composites because of their unique tunable properties and applications in automotive, electronic, textile, energy, food, aerospace, and biomedical fields.

So, Dr. Vijay Rangari, a professor of materials science and engineering at Tuskegee University, is helping to reduce environmental waste with value added products and applications.

“People often underestimate the level of cutting-edge research being done at historically Black colleges,” said Nyarko.

“When students talk to recruiters, they’re impressed that they worked on things like visible eye communications within smart buildings. It provides a context with which they can speak to employers from a fundamentally different position than just theoretical knowledge from books.” S

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CORPORATE LIFE

by Kenneth Barnes editors@ccgmag.com

HOW TO CULTIVATE THE LEADER IN YOU

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verything will change in your life when you decide to become the leader you have the potential to be. Growth goals include focusing on your effectiveness, subtracting from your weaknesses, dividing your workload, and multiplying your impact.

Effective Leadership Effective leadership requires more than management skills. The effectiveness of a leader will never rise above their ability to lead and influence others. Therefore, leadership skills determine the level of not only the leader’s personal success but also the success of the organization.

You do not have to be leading people or a huge project to be considered a leader.

If you are engaged with your co-workers in a room and you have a thought, you can lead. You can influence.

Increasing Influence When we share a message or when we don’t keep what we know to ourselves only, we immediately have the impact of influencing someone’s life or experience.

Share what you know with others.

Mentor others. Each one, teach one.

Continually teach others, younger individuals, people in your organization, provide exposure to someone, and offer a thought to the people who surround you.

Key to Leadership If you have a sense of what you think is most important and most urgent, and it does not align with your customer or organization’s priorities, then your plans will be ill-effective. You want clarity with the expectations around you in order to prioritize correctly. Level setting is key in moving forward as an organization.

Next, think about what is urgent versus what is important. Prioritize those tasks that you know will have the biggest impact.

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Prioritization Principles Have conversations to level-set expectations. These conversations are very powerful and will give everyone the opportunity to focus on what is important.

It is just critical to know yourself. Have a true understanding of who you are and what will take you more time.

This will allow you to divide your time accordingly. What you can execute quickly and with quality?

Protecting Your Character Protection of your character starts with yourself. You can’t lead anyone if you don’t home into your own ability to lead others. Your character needs to be your strong point. Develop your character over time. If a leader can hone into his or her own abilities, it can provide him or her with the ability to speak and act, courage, empathy, self-caring, and other qualities that will all come out naturally.

Developing Trust Be consistent. Behavior also consistently reflects strong leadership. Respect, trust among your peers, your management, and those you are trying to lead is also very crucial.

Making Positive Changes Adjust the way you approach things. Get input and feedback from others.

For people who are looking for you to lead, it is the fear of the unknown or about changing the status quo that doesn’t really sit well with too many people. It is important for leaders to understand that we will not be aware of all the resistance that we will affect, but if we have an understanding, we will be able to channel it or recognize it when the time comes.

As leaders, you are responsible for being a consistent voice, a positive image to help everyone get through the resistance.

As leaders, you are responsible for being a consistent voice, a positive image to help everyone get through the resistance.

Approach to Problem Solving: At the beginning of our careers, we’re all more of “doers.” But as you get into leadership, that behavior evolves and changes. You go from being a problem solver to collaborating with other people to solve the problem.

Having the Right ‘Attitude’ Every moment is an opportunity where you can decide whether you want to be positive or negative in a situation.

When you are faced with something challenging, that’s the moment that you can decide whether you want to push through it with a positive attitude or complain and not fight through it.

Have the attitude to be optimistic; this way, you will see the positive in every situation. Your attitude is something that you have complete control over.

The indispensable quality of leadership is vision. If you don’t know where you’re going, it is impossible to design a path to get there.

Self-discipline is doing something good when no one else is looking. Selfdiscipline is the difference between temporary success and sustained success. S

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Panelists at the 2020 BEYA Leadership seminar were all from General Dynamics Corporation. Pictured from top to bottom, they are Nikola Greene, senior director of operations, Robin Butler, human resources manager, Michael Dawson, information systems supervisor, and Adrienne Alberts, director of strategic talent programs.

Major Themes • Leadership should begin with self • Leadership is developed, NOT discovered.

• “The world becomes a better place when people become better leaders.”

• The best investment in tomorrow is to develop your influence today.

• Influence is the beginning of true leadership.

• Consistency in character is key to successful leadership.

• The ultimate test of leadership—creating positive change.

• Quickest way to get to leadership—problem solving.

• Proactive beats reactive any day.

• Three “Rs” of prioritization: • What is REQUIRED of me?

• What will give me the greatest RETURN? • What is most REWARDING? • Character will make you bigger on the inside versus the outside.

• The decisions that we make are often impacted by our proximity to the problems that we are facing.

• The heart of leadership is serving people.

• The price tag of leadership is self-discipline.

Advice • Do what you say you will do.

• Act on your word.

• Changing your thinking changes your habits. Positive thinking will lead to taking responsibility and acting.

• The expansion of leadership is personal growth. We should always have a desire to grow.

• Be reassuring to others who look up to you as a leader.

• Keep the desire to be more growth-conscious alive.

• All these traits can be learned. It doesn’t all have to be inherent.

• The day you think to yourself that you want to be a leader, you need to step back, trust your team, and empower them to do what you set out to do.

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CAREER VOICES

by Terrence Dove editors@ccgmag.com

YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK The STEM industry can be extremely challenging. Overcoming those challenges, however, can be very rewarding, both personally and professionally. Most top experts in their field will tell you that their journey was one of hard work, resilience, and perhaps a few missteps along the way. It is much the same in technical fields.

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any minority professionals in STEM find themselves in different spaces and life cycles, and those cycles tend to have various peaks and valleys. We spoke to a few of them and asked about key lessons they learned along their professional journeys. Their responses are nuggets of wisdom that will help young, gifted, and Black students across all STEM fields and careers.

Be a collaborative thinker and worker. Collaboration is critical to

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play a large part in your professional experience. Respect everyone’s expertise and realize that everyone has something to contribute to team efforts. If you have a good team, you can solve more than the sum of your separate parts. There’s a satisfaction in knowing that, as a team, you produced something together that no one person could produce. Understand who your team is, and learn to trust them. Discover what it means to work effectively with them. Get to know the people around you. Lead from the front, and bring everybody forward together, collectively.

Know that your skill set makes a difference. What you do and

what you know are necessary to solve an unknown problem. You are a productive member who can help get a job done. Value who you are and what you can do, and others will, too.

Have a natural curiosity. Explore.

Take things apart. Ask questions.

Expose circuits. Find out how things work. Learn something new and resolve problems that have never been solved before.

Don’t be afraid of failure or rejection. Failure toughens you

up and prepares you to attempt new endeavors. It shows that you’re stretching yourself out of your comfort zone and expanding your boundaries. That promotes growth and development. If everything worked every time, you would not be expanding yourself. Know that there will be situations where you won’t know how to do something, and that’s okay. Don’t be afraid of being wrong. Embrace the unknown and embrace change. All of your experiences will help lead you to new growth.

Practice self-reflection. Identify yourself as the head of your ship.

You have all authority regarding your decisions and direction. You are the CEO of your life’s manifestations. Often students don’t vocalize concerns, thoughts, and struggle. They suffer silently and don’t vocalize what is optimal for them, or that something is wrong.

Discover your blind spots. There

are areas in which you will excel, and there are others that will need some work. The latter areas are called “opportunities.” Learn what they are and how to recognize them. Others, like mentors, can help show you how you operate and help you understand where those areas are. www.blackengineer.com

If everything worked every time, you would not be expanding yourself. Know that there will be situations where you won’t know how to do something, and that’s okay. Don’t be afraid of being wrong. Embrace the unknown and embrace change. All of your experiences will help lead you to new growth.

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Find a mentor. When you graduate

from college, you will have the education, and you will have a job.

You will definitely need someone to help you navigate best practices for intertwining those things effectively.

Mentors will help you do that. They will be there to help you with life experiences for which you are not prepared or might not have considered as a young professional. And, there are some situations that school cannot prepare you for. Mentors will help

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Most will be more than happy to help you out. And they can help grow your professional network, which is always helpful as you continue your career. S

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These 15 engineering deans are moving the agenda forward at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). They are lending support to the innovation and ideas that faculty put together. The deans are setting the continued direction that faculty is there to make. In each case, the deans are making significant contributions to their ABETaccredited engineering schools.

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DR. ZHENGTAO DENG

Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences

Alabama A&M University

Dr. Zhengtao Deng assumed the position of interim dean in the College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Sciences in August. As principal investigator, he has led a proposal to acquire a high-speed video imaging system for supersonic shockwave research at Alabama A&M University (AAMU). The Mach 4 wind tunnel

imaging system will enable researchers to conduct electromagnetic shockwave control and shockwave/boundary layer interaction research. The proposed project will acquire a high-speed, high-resolution digital video system, the Phantom V1210 camera, made by Vision Research. The instrument for the supersonic wind tunnel facility will enable research in electromagnetic control of shockwave and shockwaveboundary layer interaction using AAMU’s supersonic wind tunnel. This facility can provide air at a speed of Mach 4.

The existing instrumentation for the wind tunnel includes a sting balance, an optical imaging Schlieren system, and a computer-controlled high-speed data acquisition system with 48 channels.

DR. J. MURRAY GIBSON Dean, College of Engineering

Florida A&M University–Florida State University Gibson was appointed dean of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

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HBCUs • Alabama A&M University College of Engineering • Florida A&M University–Florida State University College of Engineering • Hampton University School of Engineering & Technology • Howard University College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences • Jackson State University College of Science, Engineering and Technology • Morgan State University Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering • North Carolina A&T University College of Engineering • Norfolk State University College of Science, Engineering, and Technology • Prairie View A&M University Department of Engineering Technology • Southern University and A&M College of Engineering • Tennessee State University College of Engineering

in 2016. Previously he served as the founding dean of the Northeastern University College of Science. He also spent seven years as a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Gibson holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge and researches materials science and engineering. He has developed advanced microscopy and diffraction techniques to study structure at the atomic scale in materials and to illuminate the relationship of materials’ properties to structure. He has published over 200 journal papers, has five patents, and has 17,000-plus citations.

As the director of the advanced photon source at Argonne National Laboratory, he developed the synchrotron X-ray source into the Western Hemisphere’s largest scientific user facility. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Microscopical Society.

Hampton University

Howard University

• University of Maryland Eastern Shore Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences

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Dean, School of Engineering and Technology

• University of the District of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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JOHN M.M. ANDERSON, PH.D.

DR. JOYCE T. SHIRAZI

• Tuskegee University College of Engineering

• Virginia State University School of Engineering, Science and Technology

she leads faculty and staff in the Architecture, Aviation, Chemical, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering departments. She has served in both faculty and staff positions in the University System of Maryland.

She also served as the chief liaison between the chancellor, board of regents, and the council, and on the Maryland Higher Education Commission Faculty Advisory Council. At Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Boeing, she worked on project management and design of engineering systems such as offshore oil platform structures, wide-body airplanes, and hazardous waste and air quality environmental systems. She is a licensed professional civil engineer and has academic credentials that include a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Howard University, Master of Science in environmental engineering from the University of Tennessee, and a Doctor of Science in environmental and engineering management from George Washington University.

Dr. Joyce T. Shirazi has a long and distinguished career in higher education and industry. At Hampton University

Dr. John M.M. Anderson assumed the duties of interim dean on May 13, 2019. He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. He has served as a professor in the Howard University College of Engineering and Architecture’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with

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a focus in the areas of signal and image processing and medical imaging. Prior to joining Howard, Anderson was a faculty member at the University of Florida and a visiting professor at the University of Maryland. In addition to his experiences in academia, Anderson served as a health science administrator for the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health, and an associate editor for the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Letters.

DR. CRAIG SCOTT

Interim Dean, Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering

Morgan State University

DR. WILBUR WALTERS

Dean, College of Science, Engineering, and

Technology

Jackson State University Dr. Wilbur Walters was named dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology on July 1, 2019. He returned to his alma mater in 2002 as a member of the Jackson State University faculty.

He served as an associate professor in the Department of Physics, Atmospheric Sciences, and Geosciences, with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He later became chair of the physics department.

From there, he became associate dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, and then interim dean.

On his appointment as dean, Walters said plans include town hall meetings with students and online courses for new and existing programs. Walters’ research interests include development and characterization of thin films, coatings, and nanostructured material. He holds a master’s degree in materials science and engineering from University of AlabamaBirmingham and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from UAB and the University of Alabama. www.blackengineer.com

Dr. Craig Scott was appointed an interim dean of Morgan State University’s Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering in February 2018. During his 27-year academic career at Morgan State, Scott has served as an associate professor, professor, and chair in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department for the last 17 years. His research interests include engineering visualization, network security, intrusion detection, analytics, computer vision, image/spatial data fusion, multi-view image reconstruction, non-radarbased tracking, engineering education, and technology-assisted formative assessment and differentiated instruction. Scott earned his Ph.D. from Howard University, a Master of Science from Cornell University, and a bachelor’s degree in science from Howard. Early in his career he worked as an engineer at Westinghouse Defense & Electronics and electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining Morgan State as a faculty member in 1991.

Institute of Technology. He began teaching at Norfolk State in the fall of 1987, was the chair of the Department of Mathematics from 2002 to 2008, and associate dean from 2011 to 2018.

He continues to serve on committees, do research, and enhance academic programs at Norfolk State University.

Most recently he served as principal investigator for the grant Collaborative Research: Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence: Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Students in STEM Education Using Nanotechnology. His honors include induction into the Alpha Kappa Mu and Beta Kappa Chi Honor Societies. He is also a member of the National Association of Mathematicians.

DR. ROBIN N. COGER

Dean, College of Engineering

North Carolina A&T State University

DR. MICHAEL KEEVE

Dean, College of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Norfolk State University

Dr. Michael Keeve was appointed dean of the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Norfolk State University in July 2018. Keeve received his B.A. in mathematics from Hampton University, his master’s in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Georgia

As dean of the North Carolina A&T State University College of Engineering (COE) since July 2011, Dr. Robin N. Coger has earned several nominations, including 2019 Outstanding Women in Business for producing “more African-American engineers than any other campus across the United States.” Before joining North Carolina A&T, Coger was a mechanical engineering professor at University

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of North Carolina. At N.C. A&T, her expertise is in solving problems related to tissue engineering. Her work has resulted in publications in cryopreservation, one patent, and another pending. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She is also a board member of the Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering organization. Additionally, Coger chairs the HBCU Engineering Deans Council, which consists of the engineering deans at HBCUs with ABETaccredited engineering programs. Coger earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and master’s and doctoral degrees from University of California, Berkeley.

helped create the Computational Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Cyber Security Research Center, the Center for Advancing Innovation is Smart Microgrid, and Center of Excellence in Research and Education for Big Military Data Intelligence.

Dean, College of Sciences and Engineering

Southern University and A&M College

Dean and Professor, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering

Prairie View A&M University

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Tennessee State University

DR. PATRICK CARRIERE

DR. PAMELA HOLLAND OBIOMON

Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Pamela Holland Obiomon has been drawn back to Texas. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, an M.S. in engineering from Prairie View A&M University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Before coming back to Prairie View in 2003, she taught courses at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology and worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Obiomon’s research interests lie in integrated microsystems for environmental sensing powered by energy scavenging, smart systems using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and the design of FPGA-based controllers for autonomous vehicles. In 2013, under her guidance, the department was awarded $20 million in grants, which

Director, TIGER Institute

In January 2017, Dr. Patrick Carriere became dean of the College of Sciences and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Texas A&M University–College Station. Before joining Southern University in 1998, he held faculty positions at both Texas A&M–Kingsville and West Virginia University–Morgantown. In 1999 he became the chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern. From 2002 to 2005, he was associate dean for research and graduate programs.

From 2004 to 2005, he served as a program director at the NSF in the Divisions of Undergraduate Education and Engineering Education and Centers.

In 2006 he served as the program chair for the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education–Gulf Southwest Conference and as the Steering Planning Committee chair for the FEMA/HBCUs Conference Region 6. Carriere has worked and published extensively on environmental and water resources projects. His research interests are in bioremediation, treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater, and groundwater modeling.

Dr. S. Keith Hargrove took up post as dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science at Tennessee State University in 2009. A longtime advocate for mentoring tenure-track and minority faculty, he served as department chair at Morgan State before returning to his alma mater. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee State University, his M.S. from Missouri University of Science & Technology, as a GEM fellow, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He previously worked for General Electric, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, NIST, Oak Ridge Laboratory, and General Motors, and as a research professor at the University of Michigan. Hargrove has received funding from the NSF and has conducted research with Sikorsky, Boeing, NASA, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army in systems engineering, virtual and augmented reality, and advanced manufacturing.

He is director of the TIGER Research Institute, a group of laboratories funded by external grants and contracts.

DR. HESHMAT AGLAN

Dean, College of Engineering

Tuskegee University

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Dr. Heshmat Aglan came to the United States with a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of London, and an M. Eng. and B.S. from Assiut University, Egypt, all in mechanical engineering. He has worked at Tuskegee University for more than 25 years. In projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), he spearheaded courses for engineering students through the redesign and development of modules. In 2015, he earned a four-year appointment by the governor of Alabama to the State Board of Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration. Aglan has shared his research with the NSF, NASA, the defense department, DHS, and the Federal Railroad Administration, as well as Raytheon, Nucor Steel, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. Aglan has supervised more than seven Ph.D. students, 40 M.S. students, and 20 post-doctoral scholars.

The USPO has recently granted him two patents; one deals with the invention of nanostructured thin films and the second with the invention of technology for in situ repairing of railroad railhead defects.

DR. DEVDAS SHETTY

Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

University of the District of Columbia

Dr. Devdas Shetty is engineering dean and applied science professor at University of the District of Columbia.

He received B.S.M.E. and M.S. degrees from the University of Mysore in Mysore, India, and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology. He was dean of the College of Engineering at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. He was also the founding chair holder of the Vernon D. Roosa Endowed Professorship at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, where www.blackengineer.com

he was dean of research and the director of the Engineering Applications Center. He also worked with the Cooper Union Nerkin School of Engineering in New York, NY. His areas of expertise are mechatronics, product design, manufacturing, and automation. He is a registered professional engineer.

DR. DAWIT HAILE

Dean, College of Engineering and Technology

Virginia State University

DR. DERREK B. DUNN

Dean, School of Business and Technology

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Before returning to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Dr. Derrek B. Dunn held administrative positions at North Carolina A&T State University, Savannah State University, and Alabama A&M University, with extensive experience in roles as a faculty member, chairperson, dean, or associate vice president. He has been involved with program accreditation agencies such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the American Council on Construction Education, American Chemical Society, the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Dunn holds the following academic degrees: a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T; a Master of Construction Management from Western Carolina University; a Master of Science in electrical engineering, a Master of Science in mathematics, and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Dr. Dawit Haile serves as dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at Virginia State University. He previously served as associate dean and chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science department. Before joining VSU, he held faculty appointments at Xavier University and Southern Illinois University. He has received more than $15 million in research funds and grant awards. His research interests include image compression, wireless networks, datamining, and graph theory. He was a recipient of the VSU-Bank of America Outstanding Faculty award honoring his contributions in teaching and research.

Haile serves on the board of directors of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM). CCAM is an applied research consortium with membership from industry, university, and government. In 2017, Haile was reappointed by the governor of Virginia to the Commonwealth’s Manufacturing Development Commission for a second term. Haile earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Southern Illinois University, a master’s degree in computer science from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a master’s in mathematics from Addis Ababa University. S

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In the summer of 2002, the Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) organization and Career Communications Group’s US Black Engineer magazine laid the framework for an annual survey. The study looks at the support of engineering programs in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that engage the strengths of academic-industrial partnerships. Over the last 18 years, participants and organizations, as well as the level of participation, have varied, but AMIE’s strategic alliance continues to combine HBCU engineering research strengths, laboratories, and other resources.

AMIE’s academic partners include the HBCUs that have ABET-accredited schools of engineering. These institutions

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represent 4 percent of the nation’s accredited engineering schools but are responsible for 30 percent of all Blacks who graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. AMIE includes leaders from business and industry, and government.

Currently, the AMIE board chairman is Scott Trapp, a corporate director of diversity outreach at Lockheed Martin, a global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies company.

His role incorporates higher education initiatives as well as talent sourcing and outreach and national diversity events like the BEYA STEM Conference, cohosted by the Council of Engineering Deans at HBCUs, who are also the academic partners in AMIE. Jacklyn Mitchell Wynn serves as AMIE vice chair. She is a vice president at General Dynamics Information Technology

(GDIT), working across GDIT’s portfolios, including cloud, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

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AMIE’s coalition provides an opportunity to influence and access talent, educators, and businesses in promoting minority student pursuit of engineering and achieving greater diversity in the engineering workforce. At the 2020 BEYA Conference held Feb. 13-15, also co-hosted by US Black Engineer magazine, AMIE academic partners, who are leaders in STEM education through teaching, scholarship, research, and innovation, encouraged students and faculty to reinforce connections across academic fields and industries to create the entrepreneurial mindset and intellectual curiosity needed to innovate.

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AMIE’s coalition provides an opportunity to influence and access talent, educators, and businesses in promoting minority student pursuit of engineering and achieving greater diversity in the engineering workforce.

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On Jan. 15, the State of U.S. Science and Engineering report was released.

The report describes trends in science and engineering (S&E) education and workforce, research and development (R&D), and innovation. In 2016, about 800,000 students in the United States earned bachelor’s degrees, or the equivalent, in science or engineering. In overall numbers, more women are in the scientific workforce than ever before, the new report said, as are Black and other minority scientists and engineers.

But because the number of jobs also increased, women and minorities remain underrepresented in most fields.

In 2017, the report also found that while the United States government funded $76 billion of research, businesses funded an additional $85 billion. Since 2000, the rise in U.S. R&D was driven mainly by the business sector, which continues to fund most of the R&D in the United States, as well as most of the applied research and experimental development. Business investments have driven growth of R&D spending, which has increased by 4 percent each year. HBCU engineering deans stress the importance of original investigation undertaken to acquire new knowledge and experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any application or use in view.

Among higher education institutions like HBCUs, where the federal government is a major source of R&D support, eight federal departments and agencies together account for most of the federal R&D spending. This R&D support comes mainly from the Department of Defense and other defense-related agencies. The other federal agencies with large R&D portfolios include the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, and the Department of Transportation, all focused primarily in the areas of basic and applied research. NASA distributes its budget across the different types

of R&D, with about half going to basic and applied research and half to experimental development. As budgets for federal STEM education programs rise, HBCU engineering schools look to funding for research capacity-building efforts at minority-serving institutions.

According to an American Association for the Advancement of Science report, Congress has directed the NSF to provide level funding of $35 million for the HBCU program. The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation was allocated $47.5 million, a $1.5 million increase. The budget for Office of STEM Engagement at NASA continues to fund the Minority University Research Education Program. Within the Space Technology directorate, there is support for “flight of K–12 and collegiate educational payloads,” which include CubeSats built by students that are launched on the same rocket as other science and technology payloads. There is also increased funding for the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program and the Graduate Student Research programs. Congress has also directed that the Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship program receive not less than $10 million. The budget for NOAA’s Office of Education reports new funds for programs supporting minority-serving institutions.

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2020 Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering: Industry 1. Lockheed Martin Corporation 2. The Boeing Company 3. Northrop Grumman Corporation 4. IBM Corporation 5. Raytheon Company 6. Boston Scientific Corporation 7. Microsoft Corporation 8. Corning Incorporated 9. General Motors 10. NetApp, Inc.

Government/nonprofit 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) 4. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 5. National Science Foundation (NSF) 6. U.S. Army 7. U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) 8. National Security Agency (NSA) 9. U.S. Navy 10. U.S. Department of Defense

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ADP, LLC. Amazon Battelle Chevron Corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. Comcast Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Discover Financial Services Dot Foods Dupont

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Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Informal (NOAA) Naval Surface Warfare Centers (NAVSEA) Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Office of Naval Research (ONR)

GlaxoSmithKline plc Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC The Home Depot, Inc. Honeywell International Inc. International Paper Johnson Controls, Inc. L’Oréal L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Nestlé S.A.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Intel Corporation Micron Technology, Inc. Nissan North America, Inc. Oracle Corporation Redstone Federal Credit Union Rolls-Royce plc Siemens Corporation Tec-Masters, Inc. Texas Instruments Incorporated The MITRE Corporation Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Yates Construction

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State Purdue University Global U.S. Air Force U.S. Army Research Labs U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Department of Homeland Security United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

Netflix, Inc. NextEra Energy, Inc. Nintendo The Procter & Gamble Company Santee Cooper Sirius XM Radio Inc. Target Corporation Walgreen Co. World Wide Technology, Inc.

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olleges and universities are taking various approaches to battling the decline in enrollment of AfricanAmerican students pursuing STEM careers. The deans of several engineering schools expressed concern about the decline and said they are involved in efforts to attract more students to the disciplines. Dual enrollment programs, STEM academies for middle school students, community college partnerships, nanotechnology days, and other outreach programs are among the strategies they are employing.

At a recent gathering of deans of historically Black colleges and universities, Norma Clayton, chair of the board of trustees at Tuskegee University, asked the leaders about innovative intervention strategies they’re utilizing to address this concern.

Dr. Pamela Obiomon, dean of the College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, said the school has a multi-prong approach. It includes going after students who would not normally major in engineering as well as pursuing students who are interested in other schools. However Prairie View’s main focus is on retention.

At Jackson State University, Dr. Wilbur Walters, dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, said that although many other institutions have been experiencing declining enrollment, “our engineering program in the last five years has grown at double digits.”

Even so, the school is taking steps to be even more appealing to a larger population. Jackson State University officials eliminated out-of-state fees “to make Jackson State affordable for its students,” Walters said.

The Mississippi school also has focused on its local student population as a recruitment source.

“If we don’t grow the students in our own local urban population, we are doing a disservice,” said Walters.

Dr. Craig Scott, interim dean of Morgan State University’s School of Engineering, said nothing takes the place of the hard work involved in visiting high schools and meeting with students.

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students to come to us,” said Scott. “We have to go to them.”

At the University of the District of Columbia, while the number of international students has decreased, the school has had a jump in its incoming students from within Washington, D.C. Dr. Devdas Shetty, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, said that thanks to aggressive recruiting, the school has experienced a 15 percent annual increase of students from D.C. each year for the past three years. Many of those students are minorities, he said.

“If we don’t grow the students in our own local urban population, we are doing a disservice.”

- Dr. Wilbur Walters, Dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Jackson State University

Through funding from the U.S. Air Force, the school also brings teachers to the University of D.C. campus for a week to focus on chemistry and materials science. The idea is for the teachers to go back to their schools and share some of the “very exciting experiments” and experiences they’ve had with their students.

Tuskegee University offers two summer minority introduction to engineering programs for students in ninth, 10th, and 11th grades.

Dr. Heshmat Aglan, dean of the College of Engineering at Tuskegee University, said the program attracts young people from across the country and involves exposure to all engineering departments, visiting local industries, hearing from guest speakers, hands-on activities, and time spent with role models. Some of these participants apply to and are accepted at Tuskegee as incoming

Building relationships is key to building a pipeline for the future, according to Dr. Patrick Carriere, dean of the College of Sciences and Engineering at Southern University and A&M College. His staff works with guidance counselors and offers a four-week summer exposure experience for middle and high school students.

He added that retention is also crucial.

“We lose 50 percent of our students in the first year,” said Carriere, adding that many are “ill prepared in math. They don’t have the foundation.”

The school provides tutors and coaches to help build that foundation. “Retention is cheaper than recruitment,” he said.

Computer science boot camps are among the approaches that Howard University has taken, according to Dr. John M. M. Anderson, interim dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University.

Dr. J. Murray Gibson, dean of the College of Engineering at Florida A&M/ Florida State University, emphasized that all schools must identify a unique characteristic and make it a marketing and selling point.

He said the student body makeup of the two schools is Hispanic, African American, Caucasian, and Asian, and closely reflects the country’s citizenry.

“That brings soft skills for all our students, whether majority or minority, learning how to work across cultural boundaries,” said Gibson.

Dr. Dawit Haile, dean of the School of Engineering, Science and Technology at Virginia State University, said VSU is taking many of the steps that the other deans mentioned and is also pursuing “nontraditional” students, specifically veterans who are transitioning to civilian life.

At Hampton University’s School of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Joyce Shirazi said they’ve found success by attending high school track meets and other events where teens gather. Alumni meetings also have proved to be a good resource for recruitment, she said. S

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US Black Engineer & Information Technology (USBE&IT) magazine launched the maiden issue of Leading Voices (LV) in the fall of 2017. Broken up into three or four columns written by inventors, entrepreneurs, and STEM policymakers, the section spotlights the 14 challenges outlined by the National Academy of Engineering, and disruptors such as artificial intelligence (AI) and bioengineering. During its two plus years, LV has provided perspectives on smart cities, building a weather-ready nation, and where AI is in your future.

An auspicious start for one of USBE Magazine’s newest sections. Leading Voices is available in print and online at www.blackengineer.com

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Olabisi Boyle Vice President Internet of Things Visa

Capt. David Bridges 767 Captain/Check Airman Kalitta Air

Xiomara Calderón-Colón, Ph.D. Materials Scientist The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

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e at Visa are dedicated to innovation and advancement in the payment and commerce space. We have a vested interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), and how we can use it to create seamless payment experiences that make people’s lives easier.

ordering dinner for the family through voice activation via a connected television.

There are so many ways people will live in the future. We at Visa want to think about these types of scenarios moving forward and evolve to meet consumers’ needs as society changes and advances.

My team and I proposed several suggestions to our stakeholders. What if, in the future, consumers had the option to pay with their palms, faces, or eyes instead of a physical credit or debit card?

What if they could pay by talking to a connected device near them? These are the visions we want to make a reality for consumers’ everyday lives.

Visa is using IoT and incorporating other technologies to create a superior consumer experience. These include:

We first considered what that would look like in a car scenario because many people spend a great deal of time commuting to and from work daily. To help make the commuting experience productive, we pondered what things would be beneficial for consumers: purchasing gas at a nearby station, paying tolls, reserving parking spaces, or even buying coffee.

Done the right way, consumers would be able to maximize time by paying for these services in the car without a need for physical money or cards, and they could do so without being distracted behind the wheel.

That’s what IoT and innovation in these instances will allow us to do. If the car can possibly do these things, imagine what can be done with smart scooters, smart kiosks, smart televisions, and the list goes on. Consider opening your refrigerator one day and realizing you don’t have eggs or milk you need for a meal. Now picture yourself ordering and paying for the ingredients you need right from an interactive screen on the refrigerator door and having them delivered to you within hours. That’s exciting!

Pushing the ecosystem further, we posed the real-life scenario of a family that has decided to bring an aging relative to live with them. They want to make his room and transition perfect. The future we see has the family purchasing furniture and electronics from a home smart speaker, picking the relative up with a rideshare service paid for with wearables, and even

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Voice commands that ensure safety and convenience; and

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Reward offers that compensate consumers for product and service participation.

Most importantly, we recognize these innovations must be integrated in a manner that is trusted and respects consumer privacy. Security is of utmost importance at the onset of any customer experience when we develop and innovate products and processes, and we take that responsibility extremely seriously.

Because we want to achieve optimal processes, we strive for innovation that can be utilized quickly across global markets. Further, we consider our partners strategically to ensure the overall focus retains the same values and principles Visa upholds, especially with respect to privacy. Finally, we maintain a mission to adopt innovation that provides matchless processes in the lives and daily experiences of consumers.

The way we pay today is not how we will pay in the future. Visa is investing in IoT innovation today to prepare patrons for the world they will live in tomorrow. S

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Leading Voices

Capt. David Bridges, 767 Captain/Check Airman, Kalitta Air

Inspiring Next Generation of Aviation Professionals M y passion for aviation started at the age of 7. And believe it or not, I started flying planes as a teenager. I cut grass and washed airplanes to pay for my flying lessons. I joined the Marines at age 17 and went to truck driving school after my time in the service. During that time, I was accepted to the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Tulsa, OK. I would drive trucks at night, sleep in the truck, and go to aeronautics school during the day.

I graduated with a 3.99 GPA and moved to Utah, where I got my first job as a flight instructor at the American International Aviation Academy of Utah. From there, I became an assistant chief flight instructor at Great Western Aviation. I was assigned my own campus at North Salt Lake City where I ran the flight school. I also administered the FAA written test at Salt Lake City Community College. As if that wasn’t enough, I also worked for United Airlines at the time. I would load bags for United from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. Then I would teach students from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. I would leave the aviation school and drive the city bus from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m., and then go home and do it all over again the next day.

My career expanded from there. I flew for Great Lakes Airlines, and then went to another express carrier, MESA Airlines, which serviced United, US Air, and America West. In 2007, I was hired by KALITTA Air as a first officer (or co-pilot, as most people know it) to fly 747 planes internationally. I rose through the ranks and became a captain three and a half years later. I flew the classic 747 and the 747-400 plane until 2013. I became a line check airman for the 767 in 2018.

As I look back on my career, I am grateful for all I have accomplished. I was recently asked what the keys to my success were.

There were three: hard work, sacrifice, and dedication. There’s no secret formula other than that. I pursued my passion and did whatever it took to be successful.

I didn’t limit myself or make excuses.

When my car broke down, I didn’t call in. I walked the 6 miles it took to get to work, and I didn’t complain about it. Therein

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lies the sacrifice and dedication. The next generation of aviation professionals should focus on these ideals as they embark on their careers.

careers and not scare our young people away. Nobody encourages our youth to be pilots or lets them know they can own their own airlines, but those are very viable options for them! We are rapidly becoming a technological society. If our young people don’t get in on the bottom floor, they’re going to get left behind. We must encourage our young people to get more involved in the STEM programs and industries. To become a great pilot, math and science are essential. It is necessary to understand concepts like aerodynamics, airfoil design, and aircraft construction.

I was recently asked what the keys to my success were.

There were three: hard work, sacrifice, and dedication.

There’s no secret formula other than that. I pursued my passion and did whatever it took to be successful. I didn’t limit myself or make excuses.

I say that because the aviation industry is losing a significant number of professionals, specifically pilots, to retirement right now. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to replace these professionals because there are not enough young people going through the pipelines to fill the seats of retiring pilots. Many young professionals see the lower salaries at starting positions without really considering the earning potential down the road if they stay in the profession. This goes back to sacrifice, and dedication needed in this industry.

Aviation professionals have to be trained, qualified, and certified, and that can take a while to achieve.

When it comes to our young Black students, I believe society can do more to encourage them to pursue technical

A career in aviation can be extremely rewarding. I have seen the world several times over, and I’ve met some great people in the process. There are wonderful travel benefits as well as great earning potential for those willing to work hard and dedicate themselves to the industry. I knew early on that I would have to sacrifice some things in life to follow my dream of being a pilot, and I was willing to do so. Those three ideals, no matter what career path, will inevitably lead to success and a thriving career. I encourage the next generation of aviators to do their due diligence when researching the aviation industry. I encourage them to find a pilot or aviation professional and ask him or her all the questions they can think of. Finally, they need to be determined and be passionate about flying, or whatever aspect of aviation they choose to pursue. S

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Lara Thompson, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering/Director of Biomedical Engineering Program, University of District of Columbia

Falls and Aging: The Need for Next-Gen Biomedical Solutions A

lmost everyone has, at some point in their lives, experienced a fall or know someone who has. Falls and aging are relevant to every person reading these words. Because we live in a rapidly aging world, there is a need for research and researchers in the areas of next-gen biomedical solutions.

Why is this such a pressing concern? In 2015, 8.5 percent of the global population consisted of people aged 65 or older. By the year 2050, that number is predicted to double to nearly 17 percent. Fall death rates have linearly increased between 2007 and 2016, and they will continue to increase as people get older. Moreover, despite an escalating elderly population, there is an insufficient number of medical clinicians available to meet the needs of health services. A shrinking workforce, rapidly aging population, financial pressures, and increased consumer demand may translate into severe personnel deficits, as well as limited healthcare solutions. As such, it is important that we expose and engage future and prospective doctoral and medical students to global health issues, such as those tied to aging, earlier on in their careers. This can (and should) happen as early as the undergraduate level. Doing so will lead to a greater understanding and stronger motivation for them to pursue health-related careers tied to aging.

It is imperative that researchers of the future be knowledgeable and skilled in the care of older individuals. Currently, the majority of global and public health training happens when students have already chosen their specialization area.

It is pressing that the next generation’s research workforce on aging be cultivated to include diverse groups. The share of the total population between 2016 and 2060 shows that Hispanic, African American, Asian, and mixed-race populations are projected to increase, but the white, Non-Hispanic population is expected to decrease. We need to cultivate untapped, underrepresented

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minority groups and use their talents.

That includes diversity with respect to gender, race, ethnicity, physical ability, and socioeconomic background.

In general, fewer than 20 percent of underrepresented minorities who enter the STEM fields pursuing their bachelor’s degree complete their degree in STEM. The challenge lies in how we engage underrepresented minority students about STEM careers while not compromising academic rigor. We want to get students involved; at the same time, we want them to have meaningful research experiences and professional development. Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have a role to play in this. They comprise 2 percent of the nation’s degree-granting institutions, but they produce a large percentage, nearly 40 percent, of all AfricanAmerican STEM degree holders. Also, undergraduate experiences present a unique opportunity to inspire and educate our students earlier on in their careers.

There is a need for educational programs to engage and prepare undergraduate students for careers that improve global health issues such as those tied to aging.

Biomedical engineering’s multidisciplinary nature has a critical role to play in meeting this challenge. It is a relatively new, distinctive, and multidisciplinary field that merges concepts in engineering to solve a wide and diverse array of problems tied to human health. The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is poised to investigate biomedical engineering devices, designs, and interventions. UDC offers a distinctive environment in that it is only one of three HBCUs nationwide to offer a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering degree. Further, the program places an emphasis on aging-related student research and training.

Within the Center for Biomechanical & Rehabilitation Engineering (CBRE) lab at UDC, we investigate next-gen solutions tied to human balance and mobility.

Though we are interested in research involving able-bodied people with and

without impairments, we place a specific emphasis on people who are aging. We provide underrepresented minority students an unparalleled ecosystem with resources, equipment, experiences, mentoring, and professional development.

As a local example, Washington, D.C.’s population is comprised of over 30 percent of individuals greater than 50 years old. At UDC we are investigating a new generation of assistive innovative research initiation studies through the National Science Foundation. These studies focus on balance and sensory training of older healthy individuals, as well as people who have suffered strokes.

We are particularly interested in how sensory inputs and partial body weight supportive training can impact balance and gait, and how this information can affect an individual’s multisensory integration.

UDC offers unique aging-related research experiences typically only available to students at the graduate level. We also provide an invaluable training experience to underrepresented minority students.

Because I believe diverse groups bring diverse perspectives and produce diverse solutions, I have placed an emphasis on the education and training of ethnic minority students and firstgeneration college students in biomedical engineering at UDC. Diverse researchers will be key in solving the world’s current and future problems tied to health, in particular aging. S

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By 2022, a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Report expects that 3.4 million skilled and technical jobs will go unfilled. Over the past two years, the National Science Board Task Force on the Skilled Technical Workforce (STW) has identified opportunities and challenges facing students, workers, businesses, and educators. Here, we look at how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can improve opportunities for skilled technical workers, and how they can help build the STW of the future.

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HBCU ENGINEERING DIRECTORY

THE 15 ABET-ACCREDITED H I S T O R I C A L LY B L A C K C O L L E G E A N D

2020 ENGINEERING PROGRAMS The Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Engineering Directory is most current at press time.

Every year, the listing features key figures at 15 ABETaccredited schools in alphabetical order with names and contact details. The list also has at-a-glance information on academic programs. Bachelor of Science (engineering) programs include civil engineering, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering. Graduate degrees include master’s and doctoral degrees in computational and data-enabled science and engineering, environmental engineering, and industrial engineering. Research initiatives run from joint effort research in cyber warfare, cyberdefense, and high-tech computational research and data analysis to the resources that train minority students and establish faculty collaborations in materials research.

There are also centers that strengthen the capacity to conduct environmental health and health disparities research, as well as produce curricula that serve as a foundation for producing the next generation of innovative researchers to help solve challenges.

Alabama A&M University College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences

Dr. Z.T. Deng, Interim Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences is organized into three departments, each headed by a department chair: (1) Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Construction Management, (2) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and (3) Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. The B.S. degree in computer science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and the B.S. degrees in civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. In collaboration with the College of Education, the College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences offers a variety of certified and non-certified teaching programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The college actively collaborates with government and industry partners in the vibrant Huntsville, AL research ecosystem.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Science » Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering with Concentration in Nuclear Power » Mechanical Engineering, Concentrations in Manufacturing System and Propulsion System » Civil Engineering » Computer Science, Computer Science with

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Concentration in Cyber Security

» Physics » Mathematics » Chemistry » Construction Management

Florida A&M–Florida State University FAMU–FSU College of Engineering

Graduate Programs » Master of Engineering (Systems and Materiel Engineering) » Master of Science in Computer Science » Master of Science in Applied Physics » Ph.D. in Applied Physics

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Materials science and engineering and IC

fabrication » Crystal growth, large and small bandgap, and piezoelectric material » Image and signal processing and real-time embedded systems » Cybersecurity, neural networks, modeling, and simulation in biometrics » Computational electromagnetics, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis » Advanced manufacturing » Unmanned aircraft systems, robotics » Intelligent manufacturing systems and advanced robotics » The Mach 4 wind tunnel, rating 1000 cleanroom, and three particle accelerators

CONTACT

Dr. Z.T. Deng, Interim Dean and Professor College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences Alabama A&M University Arthur J. Bond Hall 4900 Meridian Street Normal, AL 35762 P 256-372-5560 • F 256-372-5850 Email: zhengtao.deng@aamu.edu Website: http://www.aamu.edu/academics/ engineering-technology/pages/default.aspx

Dr. J. Murray Gibson, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

Florida A&M and Florida State universities share a combined college of engineering.

The college offers comprehensive academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels and works to continually evaluate, expand, and improve programs to ensure that engineering students are prepared for the demands of an innovative global society.

The unique partnership between an HBCU and a leading research university allows the college to offer the most advanced research capabilities and graduate education of any historically Black university. The college has attracted an outstanding faculty from all over the world and has first-class programs with world-class research facilities, such as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the High-Performance Materials Institute, the Center for Advanced Power Systems, and the Aero-propulsion Mechatronics and Energy Center. Because of its unique model, the college has a student population that is more reflective of the overall U.S. population than any other ranked engineering school in the country, thus preparing its students well for working in the real world.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science » Biomedical Engineering » Chemical Engineering » Civil Engineering » Electrical Engineering www.blackengineer.com

» Computer Engineering » Industrial Engineering » Mechanical Engineering Graduate Degrees » Master’s and Doctorate in Chemical Engineering » Master’s and Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering » Master’s and Doctorate in Civil Engineering » Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering » Master’s and Doctorate in Electrical Engineering » Master’s and Doctorate in Industrial Engineering » Master’s and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering » Master’s in Systems Engineering » Master’s in Sustainable Energy

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Polymers, materials, nanomaterials, and nanotechnology

» Renewable, advanced, and sustainable energy

» Biomedical imaging and cellular and tissue engineering

» Advanced transportation systems, structures, and hydraulics

» Environmental sustainability and water resources

» Advanced power systems » Intelligent systems, control, and robotics » Communication, information technology, and cybersecurity

» Active and supersonic flow controls » Superconductivity materials and applications

» Manufacturing and operations research CONTACT

Dr. J. Murray Gibson, Dean, and Professor FAMU-FSU College of Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Suite 8206, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046 P 850-410-6161 • F 850-410-6546 Email: dean@eng.famu.fsu.edu Website: www.eng.famu.fsu.edu

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HBCU ENGINEERING DIRECTORY Hampton University School of Engineering and Technology

Website: http://set.hamptonu.edu

» Master of Engineering (in Civil, Computer,

Howard University

» Master of Science in Chemical Engineering » Master of Computer Science » Ph.D. (in Computer Science, Civil

College of Engineering and Architecture

Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering)

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering) » Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate

RESEARCH CENTERS AND LABS

» Data Science and Cybersecurity Center (DSC2)

Dr. Joyce T. Shirazi, Dean

» Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC)

COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The School of Engineering and Technology (SET) is home to academic programs in architecture, aviation, and engineering. The school enrolls over 300 students and produces about 40 graduates annually. The SET strategic plan calls for expanding and strengthening the undergraduate offerings, building graduate engineering programs, and developing research areas of excellence. The school is also building relationships with contractors in a variety of applications across federal agencies.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science » Electrical Engineering » Computer Engineering » Chemical Engineering » Aviation Management » Air Traffic Control » Flight Education Graduate Degrees » Master of Architecture

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering » Integrated Photonics and Optical Sensing » Sea Level Rise and Architectural Design » Unmanned Autonomous Systems » 3D Modeling and Simulations » Material Science Engineering » Data and Network Security » Sensors and Data Fusion » Aviation Technology » Aerospace Science » Nanotechnology » Robotics » Imaging

CONTACT

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Dr. John M. M. Anderson, Interim Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) continues to play a vital role in producing our nation’s top engineers and architects. The CEA ranks among the top producers of African-American male and female engineers.

The CEA is one of Howard University’s 13 schools and colleges. The CEA comprises the five departments of Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering. The CEA offers fully accredited Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Architecture, and Master of Architecture degree programs.

Our graduate degree programs provide research opportunities in the engineering disciplines that lead to Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Howard also offers certificates in cybersecurity and other professional programs..

» CEA graduates possess the ability to

apply their knowledge of mathematics, science, design, and engineering to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems and understand the impact of architectural and engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Science » Chemical Engineering » Civil and Environmental Engineering » Electrical Engineering » Computer Engineering » Mechanical Engineering » Computer Science Graduate Programs » Master of Architecture

» Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT)

» Center for Energy Systems and Control (CESaC)

» Howard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF)

» NSF Engineering Research Center for

Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS) » Biomolecular Assemblies and Nano mechanics (BAN) Laboratory, Physical/ Chemical Environmental Processes Laboratory » Nanomaterials Processing Laboratory » Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory » Bioenvironmental Engineering Laboratory » Bio-nano Interfaces » Functional Materials & Biotechnologies Laboratory » Biofilm Engineering and Drug Discovery (BEDD) Laboratory » Passive Seismic Protective Systems (PSPS), » The Howard University Structural Simulation Laboratory » Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE) » Motion Control and Drives Laboratory » Electromagnetic Imaging and Modeling Laboratory (EMM) » Affective Biometrics Laboratory » Embedded Systems Security Laboratory » Computational Biology and Algorithms Laboratory » Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory » Software Engineering Laboratory » Cybersecurity and Wireless Networking Innovations Laboratory (CWiNS) » Signal Processing and Communication Laboratory » The Power Optimization for ElectroThermal Systems (POETS) » Applied Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory (AFDRL) » Applied Mechanics and Materials Research Laboratory (AMMRL)

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» Digital Manufacturing Laboratory (DML) » Surface Engineering and Nanofluids Laboratory (SENL) » Stout Infrastructure » Geotechnics and Materials (SIGMa) Laboratory

CONTACT

Dr. John M. M. Anderson, Interim Dean College of Engineering and Architecture Howard H. Mackey Building 2366 6th Street, NW • Suite 100 Howard University • Washington, DC 20059 P 202-806-6565 Email: ceadean@howard.edu Website: www.cea.howard.edu

Jackson State University College of Science, Engineering and Technology

Dr. Wilbur L. Waters, Jr., Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Jackson State University is committed to implementing the university’s mission and focusing its intellectual, experience, and other resources on improving the quality of life for its students, the surrounding community, state, nation, and the global community. It is comprised of six academic departments. Among them are the departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Industrial Systems and Technology, and Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, which provide students with quality ABETaccredited undergraduate and graduate programs that incorporate the systems aspect of professional engineering practice.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Science (Engineering) » Civil Engineering Environmental Track General Civil Engineering » Computer Engineering » Computer Science » Electrical Engineering Biomedical Engineering General Electrical Engineering www.blackengineer.com

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Excellence produces educational curricula focused on natural disasters that serves as a firm and enduring foundation for producing the next generation of highly educated, creative, and innovative researchers to help solve current and future Department of Homeland Security challenges related to natural disasters in coastal areas.

Power Systems Track Graduate Degrees (Engineering) » M.S. in Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering » M.S. in Computer Science » M.S. in Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Computational Engineering Electrical Engineering Environmental Engineering Geological Engineering Industrial Engineering » Ph.D. Engineering » Ph.D. Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering

CONTACT

Dr. Wilbur L. Walters, Jr., Dean College of Science, Engineering & Technology Jackson State University 1400 JR Lynch Street - JSU Box 18750 Jackson, MS 39217 P 601-979-2153 Email: wilbur.l.walters@jsums.edu Website: www.jsums.edu/science

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» The Strategic Cyber Science Warfare

Security Application Development and High-Performance Computer ResearchCenter was established in partnership with the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), which is part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The joint effort includes research in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and high-tech computational research and data analysis.

Morgan State University Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering

» The Partnerships in Research and

Education in Materials (PREM) Program provides the resources to train minority students and establish faculty collaborations in new areas of materials research. The goal is to broaden the capacity of JSU in materials research and develop a scientific workforce in materials science and engineering.

» The RCMI Translational Research

Network-Data Technology and Coordinating Center provides a secure website; data management and data sharing tools; and staff, hardware, and software for collection, analysis, storage, and exchange of clinical data for the multisite studies.

» CREST Interdisciplinary Center for

Nanotoxicity develops new approaches to the practical applications and toxic effects of nanomaterials on living organisms.

» The Center for Environmental Health

serves as a catalyst for biomedical and translational research. The specific aims are to strengthen the capacity to conduct environmental health and health disparities research at Jackson State University.

» The Coastal Resilience Center of

Dr. Craig Scott, Interim Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering enrolls over 1,100 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To ensure student success, a diverse team of professionals works in close contact with the faculty to assist students in their navigation through the college environment. The focus on first-rate customer service, coupled with state-of-the-art facilities, is all designed to achieve excellence through education.

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Bachelor of Science » Civil and Environmental Engineering » Electrical and Computer Engineering » Industrial and Systems Engineering » Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems Graduate Degrees » Master of Engineering » M.S. in Electrical Engineering » Doctor of Engineering » Ph.D. Transportation and Urban USBE & Information Technology | DEANS ISSUE 2020

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Norfolk State University

Security and Transportation Systems

College of Science, Engineering & Technology

» Graduate Certificate Programs in CyberRESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Electrical and Computer Engineering—

cybersecurity operations and physical systems, software-defined and cognitive radio systems, RF/microwave/mm-wave communication systems, computational engineering and analytics, highperformance analog integrated circuits, biomedical engineering systems, wireless cybersecurity/information assurance, engineering education, image and signal processing, and data and visual analytics Internet of Things. » Civil and Environmental Engineering— water resources and groundwater systems, bridge/large-scale structural systems, geotechnical studies, geospatial and remote sensing studies, biological and chemical sensors, and fluid mechanics. » Industrial and Systems Engineering—lean and advanced manufacturing, robotics and automated manufacturing, project and engineering management, ergonomics/ human factors engineering, energy systems, data science, industrial safety and health, and operations research big data. » Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Studies—transportation planning, traffic engineering, transportation management, entrepreneurship, and logistics. » Other—cyber embedded systems, cyber T&E, cyber systems engineering.

CONTACT

Dr. Craig Scott, Interim Dean Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., School of Engineering Morgan State University 5200 Perring Parkway • Baltimore, MD 21251 P 443-885-3231 • F 443-885-8218 Email: craig.scott@morgan.edu Website: www.morgan.edu/soe

Dr. Michael Keeve, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The College of Science, Engineering, and Technology (CSET) has over 1,800 students and presently comprises over 30 percent of the university’s student enrollment.

Undergraduate programs are ABETaccredited, and graduate programs are driven by innovative state-of-the-art research programs that enhance the educational experience for students and prepare them for national defense, industrial, and academic careers. The College of Science, Engineering, and Technology has played a pivotal role in the university’s 85-year history. Faculty contributions in research, education, service, and mentoring are exceptional. Graduates are securing outstanding jobs and earning advanced degrees. The college currently houses several research centers—the Center for Materials Research (CMR), the Information Assurance—Research, Education, and Development Institute, the Micro- and NanoTechnology Center, the Creative Gaming and Simulation Laboratory, and the Cyber Security Complex.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Science » Electrical and Electronics Engineering » Optical Engineering » Computer Science—Information Assurance and Computer Engineering » Information Technology Graduate Programs » M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering » M.S. in Materials Science » M.S. in Computer Science » M.S. in Cyber Security » Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

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» Cybersecurity » Information assurance » Cognitive wireless networks

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» Cloud computing security » Digital forensics » Smart grids security » Modeling of biological neurons » Optics, plasmonic, and metamaterials » Nano-materials and nano-technology » Advanced functional materials » Devices » Semiconductor materials and devices » Neural probes » Biosensors » Photovoltaics » MEMS actuators » Multifunctional sensors » High-k dielectrics CONTACT

Dr. Michael Keeve, Dean and Professor of Mathematics College of Science, Engineering, and Technology Norfolk State University 700 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23504 P 757-823-8180 • F 757-823-9114 Email: mokeeve@nsu.edu Website: https://www.cset.nsu.edu

North Carolina A&T State University College of Engineering

Dr. Robin N. Coger, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University is committed to engineering the future and revolutionizing the world. It is proud of the quality of its education and research, and inspired by the innovativeness, capabilities, and achievements of its engineering and computer science students, graduates, faculty, and staff. Its 10 bachelor’s, eight master’s, and five doctoral degree programs are distributed across seven departments. All 10 of N.C. A&T’s College of Engineering’s undergraduate programs are ABET-accredited. The college’s prioritization of cutting-edge research, the global competitiveness of its students and graduates, and an innovation ecosystem

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enables the college to serve as a strong technical epicenter for regional, national, and international partners, and as the No. 1 producer of African-American engineering bachelor’s degree graduates for the nation.

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Prairie View A&M University

RESEARCH CENTERS AND CAPABILITIES

» Center of Excellence in Research and

Roy G. Perry College of Engineering

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Departments » Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering » Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering » Computational Science and Engineering » Computer Science » Electrical and Computer Engineering » Industrial and Systems Engineering » Mechanical Engineering Degrees Offered » Architectural Engineering (B.S.) » Bioengineering (B.S., M.S.) » Biological Engineering (B.S.) » Chemical Engineering (B.S., M.S.) » Civil Engineering (B.S., M.S.) » Computer Engineering (B.S.) » Interdisciplinary Computational Science and Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) » Computer Science (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) » Electrical Engineering (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) » Industrial and Systems Engineering (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) » Mechanical Engineering (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.)

FIVE COE CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH CLUSTERS

» Cybersecurity and network operations » Multi-scale materials development and analysis

» Energy and sustainability » Aerospace and transportation systems » Healthcare applications CONTACT

Dr. Robin N. Coger, Dean College of Engineering—McNair Hall North Carolina A&T State University 1601 Market Street Greensboro, NC 27411 P 336-285-2640 • F 336-334-7540 Email: Rncoger@ncat.edu Website: http://www.ncat.edu/coe Twitter @COENCAT @RobinCoger

Dr. Pamela Holland Obiomon Dean and Professor COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The Roy G. Perry College of Engineering offers six ABET-accredited undergraduate programs, four master’s degrees, and one Ph.D. degree. The college is a unique community of students, faculty, staff, and scholars dedicated to the advancement, sharing, and communication of knowledge in the fields of engineering and computer science. Housed in a six-building engineering complex on the PVAMU main campus, the most highly focused component of the college is student learning.

Undergraduate and graduate programs are structured for discovery, applied learning, interpretation, and the communication of learning through shared interactive courses and laboratories designed to engage students and faculty alike. The college prepares students to become dedicated and productive members of society. The college receives about $14 million in funded projects annually from governmental agencies and private sectors. The college enrolls more than 1,600 students; about 15 percent of them are graduate students.

CONTACT

Dr. Pamela Holland Obiomon, Dean and Professor Roy G. Perry College of Engineering Prairie View A&M University P.O. Box 519, MS 2500 Prairie View, TX 77446 P 936-261-9907 • F 936-261-9868 Email: phobiomon@pvamu.edu Website: www.pvamu.edu/engineering

Southern University and A&M College College of Sciences and Engineering

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science » Chemical Engineering » Civil Engineering » Computer Engineering » Computer Science » Electrical Engineering » Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Patrick Carriere, Dean

Graduate Degrees » Master of Science in Engineering with concentrations in Chemical, Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering » Master of Science in Computer Science » Master of Science in Computer Information System » Master of Science in Electrical Engineering » Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering www.blackengineer.com

Education for Big Military Data Intelligence (CREDIT) » Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity (SECURE) » Smart Micro grid Advanced Research and Technology Center (SMART) » Center for Computational Systems Biology » Center for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEES) » Center for High Pressure Combustion in Microgravity » Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration » Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research » Thermal Science Research Center » Future Aerospace Science and Technology » Texas Gulf Coast Environmental Data Center

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The College of Sciences and Engineering provides students with technological skills and opportunities that stimulate professional, educational, and personal growth. The college provides this growth through a diverse faculty and staff that is committed to teaching, research, and service.

Students are encouraged to participate in laboratory research and cooperative

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HBCU ENGINEERING DIRECTORY education programs that enhance career confidence. They also are encouraged to participate in ongoing research with faculty members that contributes to engineering innovations. The college maintains an atmosphere that enhances the student’s ability to achieve the optimum learning experience. The environment is collegial and focused on student and workforce needs.

The college’s degree program offerings include nine bachelor’s degree programs: biology, chemistry, computer science, physics, electronic engineering technology, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and mathematics.

It offers five master’s degree programs: engineering, computer science, biology, mathematics, and physics. It also offers doctoral degree programs in environmental toxicology and science and math education.

The civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. The computer science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET. The electronics engineering technology program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET.

technologies

» Renewable energy and energy optimization; computational fluid and heat transfer

» Operating systems and architecture; algorithms and theory of computing

» Software engineering; digital data

communications » Database management and data mining

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Dr. Patrick Carriere, Dean College of Sciences and Engineering Suite# 206, P.B.S. Pinchback Engineering Building Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813-9969 P 225-771-5290 • F 225-771-5721 Email: patrick_carriere@subr.edu Website: http://www.subr.edu/cse

nanomechanics of clay materials network engineering

semiconductor device fabrication » Advanced materials; micro and nano

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infrastructure

advanced robotics

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Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, Dean

Dr. S. Keith Hargrove College of Engineering, Torrence Hall Tennessee State University 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209 Email: skhargrove@tnstate.edu Website: www.tnstate.edu/engineering

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

pollution, solid wastes

» Pavement design and management;

systems

» Intelligent manufacturing systems and

» Electronic materials and processing;

» Industrial wastewater treatment, air

» Cybersecurity/physical systems » Advanced materials » Sensor and data fusion » Intelligent health monitoring and control

College of Engineering

» Telecommunications and computer

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Tennessee State University

The College of Engineering is committed to providing the highest-quality industrydriven curricula in engineering, technology, computer, and mathematical sciences. The college currently provides accredited B.S. degrees, and graduate degrees in strategic and emerging disciplines for research and working professionals. The graduate programs are supported by advanced laboratories and research centers in fields such as cyber-physical and security systems, advanced materials, sensor and data fusion, control systems, bioinformatics, energy systems, and wireless communication. The college currently has funded grants with the Air Force Research Lab, Army Research Office, U.S. Navy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Boeing Company, and the NSF. The college enrolls about 900 students and produces about 75 graduates annually.

Graduate Programs » Master of Engineering » Master of Science in Computer Science » Master of Science in Biology » Master of Science in Math/Physics » Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology » Ph.D. Science/Math Education

Graduate Degrees » Master of Engineering » Master of Science in Computer and Information Systems Engineering » Master of Science in Computer Science » Ph.D. in Engineering and Computational Science

» Data and network security » Wireless communication » Advanced transportation systems and

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Undergraduate Programs » Biology » Chemistry » Computer Science » Mathematics » Physics » Electronics Engineering Technology » Civil Engineering » Electrical Engineering » Mechanical Engineering

» Civil and Environmental Engineering » Electrical and Computer Engineering » Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering » Aeronautical and Industrial Technology » Computer Science

Bachelor of Science » Architectural Engineering

Tuskegee University College of Engineering

Dr. Heshmat Aglan, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The College of Engineering is regarded as premier for its production of exceptionally prepared graduates ready to perform with a broad educational background. The college provides an academic portfolio through the disciplines of engineering to engage students in envisioning learning excellence, research and exploration, and service to the nation and the global community. The college is programmed for excellence with the context

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of Booker T. Washington, the innovation of George Washington Carver, and the mettle of the Tuskegee Airmen, armed with facilities, professional faculty and staff, and the resources that support public/private funding as demonstrated by its partners and friends.

Graduate programs explore new frontiers for solutions that support global issues.

Accredited undergraduate programs have become a tradition for students to enter and complete post-secondary/graduate studies in engineering.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Science » Aerospace Science Engineering » Chemical Engineering » Computer Engineering » Electrical Engineering » Mechanical Engineering Graduate Degrees » Master of Chemical Engineering » Master of Electrical Engineering » Master of Mechanical Engineering » Master of Materials Science and Engineering » Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Aerospace: aerodynamics, flight simulation,

human interface, aeronautics, and low Earth orbit satellites. » Chemical: bio-fluidics/fuels/chemical, corrosion, environmental, water and wastewater, modeling. » Electrical: electronic warfare, systems engineering, smart grid, adaptive networks, cybersecurity. » Mechanical: fatigue and fracture, corrosion, coatings, robotics, metallurgy, additive manufacturing, supersonic fluid mixing, and indoor air quality/flood abatement. » Materials Science: characterization, nanomaterials, performance/nondestructive evaluation.

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Dr. Heshmat A. Aglan, P.E. Dean and Professor, Tuskegee University College of Engineering 200 Luther Foster Hall, Tuskegee, AL 36088 P 334-727-8081 Email: haglan@tuskegee.edu Website: www.tuskegee.edu

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» Energy conversion » Modeling and simulation » Advanced manufacturing » Product design » Nanotechnology » Thermal science » Optical engineering » Renewable energy » Rehabilitation engineering and bio-assisted

University of the District of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

devices

» Structural engineering » Intelligent transportation system » Water resources engineering » Construction engineering » Center for Biomedical and Rehabilitation

Dr. Devdas Shetty, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) offers nationally competitive and fully accredited professional programs at the baccalaureate and graduate levels including a new doctoral program. These programs enable immediate employment upon graduation or for continuation for advanced-level studies. The school offers strong, ABET-accredited bachelor’s degree programs in civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science. SEAS also offers a bachelor’s degree program in information technology; master’s degree programs in computer science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering; and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Undergraduate » B.S. in Biomedical Engineering » B.S. in Civil Engineering » B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Option » B.S. in Mechanical Engineering » B.S. in Computer Science » B.S. in Information Technolog Graduate Degrees » M.S. in Civil Engineering » M.S. in Computer Science » M.S. in Electrical Engineering » M.S. in Mechanical Engineering » Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

» Cybersecurity » Cloud computing information assurance » High-performance computing » Wireless and sensor networks » Computational intelligence » Computational geometry » Robotics and autonomous systems » Mechatronics

Engineering, which focuses on studying human mobility » The SEAS Research Center

CONTACT

Dr. Devdas Shetty, P.E., Dean Office of the Dean, Building 42, Suite 212 4200 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 P (202) 274-5220 • F (202) 274-5520 Email: devdas.shetty@udc.edu Website: https://www.udc.edu/seas

University of Maryland Eastern Shore Department of Engineering and Aviation Services

Dr. Derrek B. Dunn, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

The School of Business and Technology includes five academic departments: Business, Management, and Accounting; Engineering and Aviation Sciences; Hospitality and Tourism Management, which includes the PGA Golf Management program; Mathematics and Computer Science; and Technology.

The faculty members within the school are actively engaged in funded research and educational projects, many of which involve undergraduate and graduate students.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Bachelor of Science » Engineering

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HBCU ENGINEERING DIRECTORY » Aviation Sciences » Accounting » Business Administration » Finance » Marketing » Business Education » Hospitality and Tourism Management » PGA Golf Management » Mathematics » Mathematics Education » Computer Science » Construction Management Technology » Engineering Technology » Technology Education

Graduate Degrees » Master of Science in Applied Computer Science » Master of Education in Career and Technology Education » Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering Technology

Virginia State University College of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Dawit Haile, Dean COLLEGE/SCHOOL OVERVIEW

» Renewable energy » Sparsity aware adaptive radar sensor » Air-propelled instrumented robotic

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

» Aerial imaging and remote sensing for precision agriculture

» Biofuels, sustainability, and geospatial information technologies

imaging; structural health monitoring

sensory platform design and development » Signal processing for detection and monitoring of electrical power signals » On-chip optical interconnected computer architecture » UAV design and testing

CONTACT

Dr. Derrek B. Dunn, Dean School of Business and Technology, University of Maryland Eastern Shore 30925 College Backbone Road Princess Anne, MD 21853 P 410-651-6067 • F 410-651-2375 Email: ddunn@umes.edu Website: www.umes.edu/sbt/

» Data analytics, multimedia data mining, machine learning

» Cybersecurity » Additive manufacturing/machining,

The College of Engineering and Technology is focused on solving tough problems. The college defines success as the growth and discovery of fundamental knowledge and the movement of these ideas and results from the laboratory to the real world. The goal is to transform communities by attracting and retaining key industries, enhancing economic development, and creating jobs. Its research helps companies improve their products and services for items as diverse as jet engines, copiers, and cutting tools. The college aligns resources and capabilities to the workforce needs of local, regional, and national economies.

RESEARCH CENTERS

RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND CAPABILITIES

cyber-physical manufacturing, nanomanufacturing process, and technology » Robotics and autonomous system » Human-computer interaction » Enterprise systems and logistics, ERP integration analytics and business intelligence

ORGANIZING UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

» Commonwealth Center for Advanced

Manufacturing (http://www.ccam-va.com)

» Commonwealth Center for Advanced

Logistics Systems (http://www.ccals.com)

CONTACT

Dr. Dawit Haile, Dean and Professor College of Engineering and Technology, Virginia State University Petersburg, VA 23806 P 804-524 1141 F 804-524-5746 Email: dhaile@vsu.edu Website: http://www.cet.vsu.edu S

Bachelor of Science » Computer Engineering » Manufacturing Engineering » Computer Science » Information Logistics Technology » Mechanical Engineering Technology » Electronics Engineering Technology » Mathematics » Economics Graduate Degrees » Master of Science in Computer Science » Master of Science in Mathematics » Master of Art in Economics

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The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) awards presented at the BEYA Hall of Innovation honor innovation and discoveries at the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Known as the HBCU STEM Innovators Awards, they are presented annually to celebrate the innovative spirit and research taking place at HBCUs. Award winners are selected from nominations of leading innovative research from HBCUs across the country.

“We take every opportunity at BEYA to drive and celebrate the innovation process by connecting and recognizing those who practice it and are at its forefront,” said veteran innovation hall host Dr. Victor McCrary at the 2020 event.

Currently, McCrary is vice president for research and graduate programs at the University of the District of Columbia.

“The significant contributions HBCUs are making in awarding degrees to minorities are having a profound national impact on the number of multicultural men and women who are ready to enter the workforce and contribute to America’s economy,” McCrary added. “Thanks to the extraordinary contributions of people from diverse backgrounds, HBCUs are producing groundbreaking research and new product development, as evidenced by their steadily increasing numbers of patents in every major field. We are proud to honor five HBCU STEM Innovators for their groundbreaking work.”

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by Lango Deen ldeen@ccgmag.com

2020 HBCU STEM INNOVATORS

Dr. Zhengtao Deng is interim

dean and professor in the College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Sciences at Alabama A&M University.

The goal of Deng’s AAMU-NASA Bearing Test Rig Project is to design and build a low rotational speed and low axial load bearing test rig that simulates the relationship between bearing defect frequencies and contact angle variations for high-speed turbo pumps. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center derived a methodology that enables the bearing defect frequencies to be calculated with the actual inner and outer race contact angles that the bearing sees under real-world rocket engine loading. The bearing test rig was successfully designed, and the test readiness review was completed in 2018, when the axial, radial, and torsional modal tests on the test rig were performed.

Kofi Nyarko, Ph.D., is an associate

professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. He is a listed inventor on seven Morgan State University Intellectual Property Disclosures, three U.S. patent applications, two issued U.S. patents, and several copyrighted software programs.

An example of Nyarko’s innovations is his patented invention “Building Occupant Tracking with Visible Light Communication Sequential Relay Messaging and Lighting Modules.” This was selected as one of Morgan State’s 2019 Innovations of the Year. Nyarko also provides valuable experiential learning opportunities for his students on “realworld” technical problems.

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Dr. Vijay Rangari is a professor of materials science and engineering at Tuskegee University.

He leads a project that helps reduce environmental waste and produces value added products and applications.

Nanoparticles are widely used in biomedical and polymer composites because of their unique tunable properties and applications in automotive, electronic, textile, energy, food, aerospace, and biomedical fields.

The development and applications of nanoparticles derived from natural sources such as plants or animals are gaining more attention due to the high cost and environmental hazards of the petroleum- and mineral-derived products. These include nanomaterials obtained from renewable waste resources, including waste eggshell, seashells, used coffee grinds, packaging waste, and rice husk. Here’s what Rangai said: “New materials would have universal applications in any electronic device, and their impact would span the computing, communications, and biomedical industries. In addition, broadening our students’ knowledge and research experience will help them design and manufacture the next generation of materials and applications.”

Dr. Pawan Tyagi is an associate

professor of mechanical engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. He has brought over $10 million in grants to UDC as a principal investigator and contributed another $10 million in grants and contracts as a Co-PI. Among them, he and his faculty team were awarded a $4.8 million NSF-CREST Center for

Nanotechnology Research and Education grant to enhance UDC’s capacity as a Ph.D. granting institution, while performing cutting-edge research in nanotechnology-enabled computer devices, additive manufacturing, and energy science. He is credited with innovative molecular spintronics devices for futuristic applications in quantum computers, unprecedented memory devices, and novel forms of metamaterials.

Past honorees of the HBCU STEM Innovator Award include Dr. Abdollah (Ebbie) Homaifar, director of the Autonomous Control and Information Technology (ACIT) Institute, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. BiDar (Peter) Wang, assistant professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Dr. Eric Conway, chairperson, Fine & Performing Arts Department/Conductor, Morgan State University; Dr. Frances Williams, full professor, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. Goldie Smith, founder, Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s Aging and Community Health, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. Grant Warner, director of innovation, Howard University; Dr. Joseph Graves, associate dean for research, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. Kadir Aslan, assistant dean for research and graduate studies, Morgan State University; Dr. Kevin Kornegay, professor, Morgan State University; Dr. Legand L. Burge, professor and former chairman of the Department of Computer Science, Howard University; Dr. Samuel Nahashon, research professor and interim department head, Tennessee State University; Dr. Shanthi Iyer, research professor, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. Shengmin Sang, associate professor, North Carolina A&T State University; Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, chair and professor, North Carolina A&T State University. S

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Let’s Make a H B C U s A N D T E C H N O LO G Y CO M M E R C I A L I Z AT I O N

When considering advancements

in technology, many think of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as top innovators. But many are engineers and inventors who left their marks on the field. Computer scientist Mark E. Dean spent 30 years at IBM working to make computers more accessible and powerful. His work has made a lasting impact on the way that we use computers today.

Likewise, today’s teams at HBCUs change the narrative of building capacity and competitiveness in various STEM industries. As the United States moves closer to becoming a minority-majority population, several opportunities exist for HBCUs from increased enrollments and funding to greater overall attention.

However, the appropriate strategic leaders and vision must be in place to take advantage of any opportunities that will arise for these schools.

One of the primary tools by which this can happen is networking. Networking and collaborating with corporate partners opens many doors for students and new professionals. In those partnerships, though, leaders must be willing to take risks and approach innovation with open minds.

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serves several interdependent professional goals. First, it will allow HBCUs to get more minorities into the rapidly growing technology field. Out of the 107 HBCUs that exist, roughly 34 have technology programs. Increasing project collaborations with partners in both the private and public sectors will undoubtedly bring HBCUs out of the shadows of inequity and level the playing field for new STEM students graduating from them. Likewise, increasing these opportunities will change the unspoken mindset that HBCU institutions are “last resort” opportunities for extremely intelligent minorities. It will also change the assumption that attending that HBCU was the only option for HBCU students.

Along with networking, offering internships, cooperative learning, and summer experiences can be effective ways to vet potential candidates and talent. These opportunities allow students to learn on-the-job applications.

Further, they allow businesses to expand visibility and showcase what they bring to market. This is especially important for industry partners and peer companies in forward-thinking sectors such as technology and government.

Also, the diversity and inclusion that HBCU students bring are extremely important for government, state entities, universities, and corporate businesses.

Diversity of thought ultimately creates a higher-end product, regardless of the industry. To speak of diversity and inclusion is one thing, but companies

cannot make that statement with integrity while excluding HBCU students and colleges. That message must be directed, expressed, AND implemented.

The underlying goal of these initiatives is singular: to get young minority students and professionals in the room where changes and decisions are made, and to provide them a seat at the table with current decision-makers and change innovators. Once they are in the room with the number one people, they will have access to information, at which point they can contribute their rich talents and ingenuity to future advancements. To do this, they will need mentors both inside and beyond the classroom. They will need to know their worth and have a strategy for protecting their intellectual property from “quick fix” financial or commercial opportunities.

At the same time, business leaders have to lean in to help counsel and sponsor an environment for students to compete in. These leaders need to ensure that this mentality is forged within their own professional peer groups, and that these peer groups understand and facilitate professional equity, not just equality.

If everyone within the needed partnerships between HBCUs and business institutions has a mindset to add value and contribute the best value to each other, the end result will be nothing short of game-changing innovation within the STEM pipeline and industry. S

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The underlying goal of these initiatives is singular: to get young minority students and professionals in the room where changes and decisions are made, and to provide them a seat at the table with current decisionmakers and change innovators.

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The Skilled Technical HBCUs AND THE FUTURE

Workforce

By 2022, a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report expects that 3.4 million skilled and technical jobs will go unfilled.

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Here, we look at how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can improve opportunities for skilled technical workers, and how they can help build the STW of the future?

The Number of U.S. Skilled Technical Workers Is Declining While Demands Increase—and Now Is Our Chance to Make a Change.

The National Academies of Sciences has estimated that by 2022, there will be a shortfall of “skilled technical workers,” defined as those workers who are posthigh school in professions that require STEM-capable skills, but do not require a four-year degree. In addition, the National Academies last year produced a

report on minority-serving institutions, noting that over half are community colleges. With this changing landscape of multiple career paths for students, and the changing needs of industry, what role do HBCUs/MSIs play in their communities?

When we think of long-term national health, we usually think of things like mental, physical, and emotional health.

But what about our economic health?

Studies have shown that in terms of long-term health for the United States on a global scale, the nation is losing its leading spot in growth and development in areas of STEM. As our systems become smarter and more

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intricate, skilled technical workers increase in demand. Our nation now faces a different kind of health crisis—a shortage of skilled technical workers to maintain these intricate systems in the years to come.

For decades, the general societal messaging surrounding the educationto-workforce pipeline has been hyperfocused on getting students into college and pursuing four-year degrees and careers. This type of environment has led to lower success rates, especially for minority students.

These highly skilled job requirements lead to competitive salaries and littleto-no debt in the long-term future across several industries including construction, gas, and health care. Even with these perks, we are still seeing a disproportionately low number of women and minorities in these jobs compared to the overall workforce of our country.

Several factors have led to the decline of the skilled technical workforce.

Systemic Obstacles That Need to Change

1. The high school to college

pipeline: High schools are typically funded by state boards of education. This funding is allocated based on the number of college-bound students.

However, community colleges are not considered “colleges” by the current formula. This is discriminatory against twoyear institutions. On a national scale, 30 percent of high school students who go to a four-year university drop out.

2. Student attention and access to

resources: The typical ratio of students to counselors in public high schools is 400 to 1, leaving room for error.

3. Stigma: The conversation

around two-year degrees and job certifications requires a shift. Students, especially African Americans and minorities, need to see successful technical workers thriving in their industry and understand the opportunities for

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opportunities through skilled work and even two-year degrees. While the demand for these workers increases, the ability to outline the specifications of what is required and what their salary trajectory could be with those skill sets needs to become readily available for the next generation of workers to make better-informed career decisions.

job security and higher-paying salaries to mitigate the ongoing plague of “imposter syndrome” and income inequality.

The lack of data and information regarding the certifications needed for these jobs and the salaries that are available results in lower turnout.

“The career pipelines are the gateway for economic mobility for people of color,” said Leon Caldwell, Ph.D. “What is unfortunate is that there is no career theory specifically for the AfricanAmerican experience in the workforce.”

• The innovation quotient and saving

How do we overcome this incredible shortfall as a society to sustain these smart systems over the course of the century and beyond? It starts with access to information and resources and economic mobility strategies. Today’s workforce development initiatives do not focus on the work skills that will fuel the next century of workers.

The traditional view of today’s electrician has expanded. Today, electricians require higher-level skills including the ability to code and create circuit designs.

These skills are not just valuable to those looking to work with the major companies and organizations like Boeing or NASA, but to those who can carry these skills into the next generation of business owners and changemakers.

Shifting the Perspective of the Skilled Technical Workforce The National Science Board recommends the following shifts to help increase access to information and resources for students to pursue certifications and job opportunities in STEM, in addition to traditional four-year degrees.

• Change the messaging: Even

though vocational schools developed a false reputation as a “less suitable” form of education, many of today’s employers are looking for skills and certifications above degrees. Messaging should remove the stigma from technical work and highlight the high demand and higher wages available to skilled workers in the future.

• Focus on the data: There is not

enough information available to students and veterans on the

the “makers space”: As children, we innately become enamored with tinkering and making things from other things. It is in our nature to experiment and invent, and that has been the backbone of our evolution as a global society.

The educational system today has placed less value on the creative work and skill sets that were once important to building our future.

Creative spaces and “maker spaces” serve as an on-ramp to STEM careers and skill sets that will prove to be valuable in the future workforce.

The next generation of women and minorities will need to see these changes implemented to be able to access these underutilized career opportunities. HBCUs are the anchors of our communities and hold part of the responsibility to continue investing in this talent and opening doors to the future of the skilled technical workforce. Other major contributors include employers and companies that will be increasingly seeking this talent as technologies advance and opportunities grow. Through education, access to information, and clear messaging, we can support the future workforce in STEM.S

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