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99 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT HBCU ENGINEERING

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Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn A. Hewson

A new research building and two new residence halls are the cornerstones of Howard’s academic renewal initiative.

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Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering or AMIE is the outcome of an initiative started in 1992. Myron Hardiman, AMIE’s executive director, traces the organization’s journey.

highlights the relationship with HBCUs and the impact the corporation makes in STEM education.

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• Section 1: Top Private and Public Supporters of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Engineering

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• Section 2: The 2016 HBCU Engineering Catalog: 15 Engineering College Choices for America’s Top Employers

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The Eugene DeLoatch Tribute

Marillyn Hewson

speaks at the 30th annual BEYA STEM Conference in Philadelphia, PA, February 2016

An iconic leader in engineering education is retiring. Eugene DeLoatch talks about his career and his legacy.

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TS Vo l u m e 4 0 N u m b e r 2 PROFILES IN INNOVATION

People and Events........................... 6 HBCUs in the news, HBCU alumni on the move

One on One....................................10 President David Wilson talks about why STEM programs are important to universities like Morgan State.

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HBCU Distinguished Alumni are changing the world The Benefits of HBCUs is a much assertive headline.

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PUBLISHER’S PAGE An Engineering Icon

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hen the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference was held for the first time, February 26–28, 1987, Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch noted with pride that Morgan State University’s School of Engineering had partnered with Career Communications Group, Inc. in what he called “the shaping of [an] historic event.”

BEYA celebrated another landmark in 2016 when it held its 30th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Conference February 18–20.

Before assuming his position as the founding dean of Morgan State’s engineering school in July 1984, Dr. DeLoatch had a distinguished 24-year career at Howard University, culminating in service as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. During his tenure at Howard, he helped boost enrollment and graduate production while developing a reputation for attracting research and development funds. The product of a dual degree program, Dr. DeLoatch has bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from Tougaloo and Lafayette Colleges. The son of a paper mill worker in Nyack, New York, he attended public schools in Piermont, New York, and returned to his native state to pursue graduate studies, earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in bioengineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

Along with teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Dr. DeLoatch has conducted sponsored research for NASA, National Science Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. His industrial experiences include consulting and special assignments with Western Electric, IBM, and Whirlpool. In 2002 DeLoatch was elected president of the American Society for Engineering Education—the first and only African American to date to hold that position in the organization’s more than 100-year history. He is the longstanding chairman of the Council of Deans of Engineering of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). At Morgan State, Dr. DeLoatch has spent the past 32 years producing a generation of engineers that use math and science to solve the world’s problems.

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PEOPLE AND EVENTS HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST NAMES MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY A NATIONAL TREASURE

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n the latest effort towards preserving the legacy of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Morgan State University have partnered to steward the many historic buildings on campus while planning for the university’s future.

“The National Trust believes historically Black colleges and universities tell an important and often overlooked American story,” said Stephanie Meeks, president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “We are proud to partner with Morgan State University to demonstrate how the preservation of their remarkable older buildings can be a springboard for growth, rejuvenation, and revitalization.”

Founded in 1867 as one of the nation’s earliest institutions to offer post-secondary education for African Americans and the largest in the state of Maryland, Morgan’s urban campus has an impressive collection of historic buildings.

The university’s landscape features 20 structures eligible for listing on the National Register. Buildings on the campus were designed by pioneering and celebrated Black architects such as Albert Cassell, Hilyard Robinson, Louis Fry, and Leon Bridges.

“We have known of Morgan’s significance on the higher education stage for many years, and now, as we prepare to celebrate our 150th anniversary, the world will know that, in fact, this university is a national treasure,” said David Wilson, president of Morgan State University. “We are very excited and honored by this designation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In many ways, it is recognition of the value we have placed on caring for and preserving the history of the great Morgan State University.”

Morgan State University President David Wilson listens as Stephanie Meeks, president and CEO of the National Trust, speaks at the partnership event.

Under the leadership of President Wilson and Dean Akers of the School of Architecture, the university has made positive strides to preserve portions of the campus, including the restoration of University Chapel, the only building individually listed on the National Register at present.

In addition, Morgan State University is home to one of six HBCU-accredited architecture programs and the only one actively seeking accreditation in historic preservation.

As a National Treasure, Morgan State marks the second HBCU, along with Howard University, where the National Trust for Historic Preservation is actively working. The National Trust’s dedicated involvement with HBCUs dates back to 1998, when Black colleges across the country made the “11 Most Endangered Historic Places” list. S

BEYA WINNER SELECTED AS BOARD CANDIDATE FOR INAUGURAL WOMEN ON BOARD CLASS

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tephanie C. Hill, 2014 Black Engineer of the Year, is in the inaugural class of Catalyst’s Women On Board Initiative.

To address the lagging representation of women on boards and the increasing demand for diversity in corporate boardrooms, Catalyst, the global expert on accelerating progress for women through workplace inclusion, announced the inaugural class of its U.S. Women On Board® initiative.

This U.S.-based, two-year program pairs CEO/board chairs who serve as mentors and sponsors with CEOendorsed board candidates. According to the organization, the new initiative builds on the success initially found in Canada, where 54% of program alumnae have been appointed

to corporate boards.

Hill, vice president and general manager, Mission Systems and Training – Ship and Aviation Systems, Lockheed Martin, has been paired with Douglas R. Conant, chairman of the Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute, while Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn A. Hewson, who champions and endorsed Hill, has been paired with Christine Katziff, a corporate general auditor at Bank of America.

A mentor and a sponsor, according to Catalyst research, can make a significant difference to a woman’s advancement in the workplace, and a lack of sponsorship, in particular, restricts women’s access to organizations’ most influential networks.

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MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT NAMED NEW FACE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

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ary Wallace, a “When I take a third-year stulook at ASCE’s Report dent at Morgan Card for America’s State University, was reInfrastructure and see cently named one of ten the average grade of 2016 New Faces of Civil a D, I know that my Engineering – College contributions in the Edition by the American field of civil engineering Society of Civil Engiwill improve this neers (ASCE). grade,” says Wallace Wallace promotes on what motivates him civil engineering about his future in civil through involvement engineering. with ASCE as the By highlighting university’s chapter young, diverse, talented treasurer and vice chair engineers, ASCE’s Gary Wallace, Morgan State University, 2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering of the Steel Bridge New Faces of Civil College Edition ASCE Team. He is also a Engineering program member of the Civil looks to demonstrate Engineering Honor that engineering Society and is leading a team to compete in the upcoming is an exciting and accessible profession, Morgan State ASCE regional Geo-Wall competition.

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Last summer Wallace participated in a research project A total of 20 honorees were selected by ASCE: 10 in the on analyzing and modeling polluted highway runoff that is collegiate division and 10 in the professional division. The part of the Mid-Atlantic Transportation Study University engineering collaborative DiscoverE will select one honoree Transportation Center (MATS UTC) at Morgan State per division as the overall “New Face of Civil Engineering.” S University. This experience helped him decide to concentrate on water resources.

THINK HARD. RETHINK HARDER.

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ermit Burchell Mitchell III is chief technology officer and co-founder of a new startup. Recently the Uniondale School District high school student created a social media app called Ideayet.

In the first mode, users can browse through ideas that resonate with their interests for enjoyment and inspiration. In the alternative mode, the platform allows users to compete for equity by commenting on posts that they would potentially want to collaborate on or support. This process facilitates ideas and provides opportunities for building an intimate and innovative connection amongst thinkers, commenters, and investors.

Ideayet is a tech company and social media platform that Kermit Burchell Mitchell III, CTO and co-founder, Ideayet involves equity crowdfunding components, which allow users to earn money and equity for posting and sharing ideas. The platform allows users to view all of their ideas in one central location in two different profile modes.

Ideayet was selected to be at TechDayHQ, the largest startup event in the United States, with over 30,000 attendees and 550 exhibiting companies. xxxxxxxxxxxx Startups have the opportunity to show off their products to thousands of consumers, investors, press, and the greatest pool of tech enthusiasts looking to celebrate emerging venture. S www.blackengineer.com

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ONE ON ONE WITH MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, DR. DAVID WILSON Terrence Dove editors@ccgmag.com

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organ State University hails as the number one university in producing African-American electrical, civil, and industrial engineers. As the 12th president of the university, Dr. David Wilson continues to lead the institution to greater heights in STEM advancement, outreach, and innovation.

With over 30 years in higher education, Dr. Wilson brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his campus and beyond. He received a B.S. in political science and an M.S. in education from Tuskegee University. He also received an Ed.M. in educational planning and administration and an Ed.D. in administration, planning, and social policy, both from Harvard University.

Dr. Wilson was appointed to President Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 2010 and serves on a host of boards and councils in the state of Maryland, including the Maryland Humanities Council, the P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland, and the Governing Board of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center.

Dr. Wilson has created an atmosphere of forward-thinking support and strategic development for STEM opportunities at

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Dr. David Wilson is the 12th president of Morgan State University.

Morgan State. We had an opportunity to speak with him about the importance of fostering, growing, and maintaining STEM programs at colleges and universities.

USBE: Why are STEM programs important to universities like Morgan State?

Dr. Wilson: It is critically important for places like Morgan State and other HBCUs to encourage, enroll, support, and graduate more students who are prepared to be the innovators of this country. That is very important given the shifting demographics we are seeing coming our way. In a few short years, the United States population for the very first time will be majority non-white. If we are not paying close attention to the pockets of the population that are growing and will be in the majority, we can find ourselves as a country in 25–30 years not having a significant number of the majority population in a www.blackengineer.com

position to be our astronauts, scientists, and engineers and to come forward with the inventions that are necessary to keep America strong and competitive.

USBE: Based on your experiences at Morgan and other major universities across the country, what is the state of STEM advancement with respect to higher education overall and, more specifically, with respect to HBCUs in 2016?

Dr. Wilson: My career has spanned some of the top institutions in the country. I have a pretty good sense of what is taking place on those campuses and what is taking place here at Morgan.

I have to say that I have seen more talent in the African-American students in the seven years that I’ve been at Morgan than I have seen across those 25 years that I’ve spent someplace else. The students who come here are supported by a faculty that truly believes in them.

I heard a former HBCU president say it best: When places like Morgan State and other HBCUs accept students in STEM fields, we accept that they are good. We assume that they can be successful. Our role is to support that. Our role is to make sure that light bulb is continually shining bright.

On some of the other campuses, the opposite could be true. If students who are people of color show up as STEM majors, the perception, intended or not, might be that they are NOT up to snuff—and they have to prove that they are. Consequently, those students can start out with a level of doubt. Once they run up against their first hurdle, they switch majors to something else because that doubt has been confirmed, and their brilliance is not being affirmed.

At Morgan, if they run up against an obstacle, professors immediately jump in, provide them the support and nurturing that they need, and convince them that they can get over this bump and over that hurdle.

What I’m seeing now in terms of the state of STEM across higher education is that too many Black students are stumbling in these fields at institutions that have not perfected a culture of support. As a result, unfortunately, these www.blackengineer.com

At Morgan, we are now building expertise around security and the Internet of Things. This is a growing field. According to a recent report, in five years, every person in the United States will have 1,000 sensors connected to them through their cell phones. They will be able to do almost everything with their cell phones.

If you multiply that times the seven billion people in the world, you’re talking about seven trillion sensors.

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students turn their backs on the fields.

What we have to do at HBCUs is to say to some of those institutions, “We really have perfected a culture in terms of how you can take students in STEM fields and imbue them with the preparation that they need to do so, in a way that will enable them to not just get their baccalaureate degrees but to go on and compete at the very highest levels in master’s programs and Ph.D. programs in some of the more elite institutions in the country.” That’s what I’m hearing the traditionally white institutions right now are struggling to incorporate on their campuses—a culture that is similar to the culture that exists on HBCU campuses.

They could learn a great deal about the cultures that we have established on these campuses over decades that churn out some of the top scientists, engineers, and innovators in this country—and must continue to do so if we are going to make an appreciable dent in producing graduates who are Black in STEM fields going forward.

USBE: That sounds like something that is inherent at HBCUs but would almost seem impossible at other universities. Is there a way for other universities to do that, or is that something that is intrinsically part

of the experience with HBCU STEM programs?

Dr. Wilson: Think it takes a long period of time to bend the cultural arc.

What I’ve learned as a result of my tenure here at Morgan is that it really starts with leadership. It starts with deans of these schools that actually believe in the work that they’re doing, that believe they can take students where they are and turn them into world-class scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers. Then that leadership has to go out and recruit a faculty that is very well-educated, very well-equipped in understanding the nexus between the practical side of the science and engineering industry and the academic side. They have to really get the mission of the institution, and they have to have that mission in their guts. They have to feel that, and they have to get a lot of enjoyment in working with students in this space. Over a period of time, that’s how the culture on the campuses is directed.

When you look at places like Morgan, North Carolina A&T, Tuskegee, and Howard, those institutions are leading the nation in the production of Black engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. It is because that leadership [at those institutions] has been in place, and SPRING 2016 I USBE&IT 11

ONE ON ONE that leadership has recruited faculty who believe in the work that they’re doing. As a result, it’s almost as if, as one of our graduates at Morgan said at one of the convocations, we love you to success. That’s what I’m talking about. The leadership recruits the right type of faculty member who is going to challenge the students, support them, and put in place networks and support systems to ensure their success. That’s the kind of thing that leads to “loving students to success” and supporting students to success. That is built up over time; it cannot happen overnight.

USBE: What are some of the challenges you’ve faced in building STEM programs and opportunities at Morgan?

Dr. Wilson: Funding is always a challenge. I think one of the things that I’ve been absolutely struck by here at Morgan is the ability of the institution and the faculty, staff, and deans of the various schools to be so prolific in producing top-flight graduates on a shoestring budget. I think there are so many HBCUs that are doing this work very impressively. Every survey that I see from the NSF (National Science Foundation) or some of the other surveys we could look at, when you look at the top 10 institutions producing the most graduates in STEM fields year in and year out, almost all of them are HBCUs. So we’re doing a lot of things right. It’s just that we could do even more of those things if we had more resources.

We are making a case more and more to federal agencies to invest more in institutions that are disproportionately producing Black STEM graduates. We are enjoying some success. We just received a $23 million grant from NIH over five years. Through that grant, we are training a cadre of Black students in the biosciences. We are giving them research experiences; we are partnering them with professors, and they are working with them in the laboratories. We are giving students small grants, and they are able to come up with their own research design to conduct their own research based on what is of interest to them. They are then charged with presenting the results of that research to a national panel of experts. That takes money. So the more places like NIH, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education understand that these types of investments in places like Morgan and other HBCUs are critical because they return dividends five or six times more than the investment, I think the better off we will be in seeing more of our graduates coming out of our institutions in these fields.

USBE: What sort of collaborative opportunities to advance STEM innovation do HBCU presidents explore?

Dr. Wilson: At Morgan, we are now building expertise around security and the Internet of Things. This is a growing field. According to a recent report, in five years, every person

in the United States will have 1,000 sensors connected to them through their cell phones. They will be able to do almost everything with their cell phones. If you multiply that times the seven billion people in the world, you’re talking about seven trillion sensors. I think there’s a great opportunity for Morgan and other institutions to recognize this as the future and then to collaborate with other research institutions to build an expertise in this area. Also, I think we have to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. This is the direction that the world is going, that the nation is going. We have to make sure that we are at the forefront of that and collaborate with other institutions, federal agencies, and the private sector to garner the support needed to build research expertise in this area and to have our students working in cutting-edge laboratories in this field so we can churn out on a continuing basis the talent in these fields that will shape the very way human interaction is taking place in the next 25–50 years.

USBE: How do you plan to increase opportunities for students to get hands-on experience and to promote inclusion in the technology sector?

Dr. Wilson: We are vigorously promoting internships for our students. We place quite a few of our students in internships. Our goal is to double and triple that. I was recently on a panel at the Push Tech 2020 Summit, and in the room were representatives from many of the Silicon Valley firms: Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. We had some pretty vigorous discussions around this question. Basically, what we (Morgan, Morehouse, Tennessee State, and Bowie) were saying is, if you’re not looking at all of the institutions for talent, then you’re not going to get the best talent. You’re not going to have the most innovative workforce. You need to open up your doors to enable students from HBCUs to come in and do internships and begin to stitch together the classroom experiences that they’re having on our campuses with the type of culture and innovation that is existing within companies like those in Silicon Valley. We explained that if you expose students to the culture of those companies while they are in school, then that is no longer a mystery to them. We assume that they have the knowledge to come up with creative ideas for a position in the company going forward, but we also need to demystify the culture of the company. I think it is critically important for our students to understand the ecosystems that exist in some of these companies that are giving rise to the type of innovation that we see. I am hopeful that as a result of the issues that we are raising now with the technology sector, we will begin to see that sector look again at our institutions more and more, understanding that they are good resources that they are currently underutilizing. S

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A HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRAD WHO IS CHANGING THE WORLD

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olin Parris, ’85, Electrical Engineering, Howard University, is one of the greatest data economy professionals on the planet.

One of his proudest accomplishments is his role in the Blue Gene Supercomputer business.

But long before supercomputer projects for high-performance systemon-a-chip architecture, Parris was an emerging leader in the world of digital convergence.

“When I first began at Howard, I was focused on electrical engineering, and then this thing called software suddenly showed up,” he recalled.

“People were always building processors and chips and electronic circuits to solve a problem, but software enables you to reconfigure the electronic circuit very quickly so you can have the circuit do other things on top of a processor,” he explained.

Parris fell in love with software at Howard. His electrical engineering degree course not only introduced him to BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) and Pascal but it gave him a ready network—students and professors—and taught him how to learn, which comes in handy considering the rate and pace at which Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that he is involved in develop.

He also learned the difference between simply writing code and architecting code.

“If you’re just going to write code, yeah, that’s interesting, but can you write effective code? Can you write code that’s secure? Can you write code that’s flexible?”

Federal funding of computer science education helps people understand how things work together and create the building blocks that change the world, Parris said.

“In the early days at Berkeley, the university became well known for BSD UNIX,” he said. “That operating system was created by AT&T, but it came out of a program at MIT funded by the U.S. government. They founded Multics

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(Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), which became UNIX, and then UNIX came to Berkeley and Bill Joy took that program and founded the Solaris operating system.”

Joy played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley. Today, nearly all operating systems are heavily influenced by Multics, through UNIX, either directly (Linux, OS X) or indirectly (Microsoft Windows).

“Berkeley’s Arpanet turned to the Internet, and government seeded a lot of what we have in the computer age,” Parris said.

Colin Parris, Ph.D.

Vice President for Software Research GE Global Research

For students, Parris has four tips for success in the data economy: 1. Develop a passion around learning.

2. Spend a couple of hours doing what you’re passionate about.

3. Join support groups, and find communities that nurture your passion.

4. Build something.

While Parris was completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering, he helped convert an AT&T digital telephone switch from centralized call processing to distributed processing.

Later, at IBM, where he spent more than 20 years of his career, one of his first software development projects was

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electronic promotions for merchants to entice us to shop online and encourage us to come back—all via IBM servers.

“The first wave of the Internet was about connecting consumers,” he said.

“Now we have more than 3 billion people connected on the Internet. By 2020 it will about 7 billion. When you look at the number of machines that will be connected by 2020, it’s roughly about 50 billion things.”That staggering number of connected devices around the world becomes profound when you think that the next sets of attacks are going to be attacks on infrastructure, he warned.

“Massive attacks could cripple financial, energy, and health systems that are all on the Internet because everything has been digitized,” Parris noted. “If we aren’t building the right systems and educating the next generation, who will take the lead?”

In the fall of 2014, GE appointed Parris vice president of software research.

He leads software, systems, and analytics experts researching ways data can impact industry, placing him at the forefront of GE’s transformation into a digital industrial company through partnerships with GE’s businesses, partners, and clients. Parris’s blogs, talks, speeches, and interviews have carried the same message since 2014: The data economy is here.

He asks us to imagine not just the worst-case scenarios of industrial machines—jet engines, power generators, pipelines, and locomotives—connected through the Internet but to adopt a digital mindset that embraces what the Industrial Internet can offer in growth opportunities.

“To succeed and capitalize on the growth opportunities the Industrial Internet is creating, industrial companies must not only be deep in software and analytics but also have the physical knowledge to match,” Parris urged.

“It’s not enough to have great software. In the complex, high-tech infrastructure worlds, you must have the deep domain expertise and knowledge of the machines and business operating environments to match.” S www.blackengineer.com

HELPING YOUTH UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF HBCUS

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istorically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have a wealth of supporters; many are graduates of the schools, but some are alumni of other institutions.

Christopher Cummings and Birse Timmons are two such individuals who share a passion for HBCUs and are making sure the next generation understands their many benefits from firsthand experiences.

Birse Timmons Cyber Systems Engineer Christopher Northrop Grumman Cummings did not graduate from an HBCU, but he has a passion for sharing all that the schools have to offer.

Cummings, a cyber systems engineer with Northrop Grumman, has been involved in taking middle and high school students on college tour trips for the past eight years.

It started when he served as a chaperone for such a trip that his stepdaughter was taking. That trip had 275 students and Cummings noticed there were few male chaperones.

Since then, he’s been involved with many college tours.

Cummings completed his latest tour with the Baltimorebased group Caring for Young Minds in late March. It included 150 young people (from sixth graders to high school seniors) spending a week visiting such schools as Acorn, Xavier, Tuskegee, Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta, Howard, North Carolina Central, and others. Of the 40 chaperones, only eight were men, he said.

“We give them a wide range of schools they can attend,” he said, noting that some of the participants are as young as sixth grade.

Cummings said the extended time on the bus is ideal for developing rapport with students and presents plenty of mentorship opportunities. He finds it rewarding to be able to have an influence on these young people.

The students ask a myriad of questions, and as the week goes on and they become more familiar and comfortable with him, those questions become more in-depth and sometimes more personal.

“After a week, students and adults really get comfortable with each other,” said Cummings, who’s also a program chair with the National Society of Black Engineers and has been involved with math and robotics competitions.

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When asked what they want to know, Cummings stated the following questions: B B B B B B B

How hard is college?

What was college like for him?

What’s it like to be a freshman?

What are Greek organizations about?

What was his first job?

How much does he earn?

How has he gotten to the position he holds today?

enough money to pay for school. But he also points out the upside of that struggle—graduating from school without any significant loans.

Observing the students on the college tours, Cummings said he’s noticed “how much they don’t know about the process…how unprepared they sometimes are.”

He stays in contact with some of the students and said it’s insightful and often rewarding to see how they progress on their journey.

Birse Timmons is a graduate of Tuskegee University in Alabama, but he resides in Connecticut, making it difficult to be actively involved with his alma mater. However, Timmons, the head of the U.S. Navy’s submarine electronic warfare systems branch, maintains support for HBCUs by taking youth on HBCU tours.

In April he participated in a tour that took 40 students to five schools, including Coppin State University, North Carolina A&T, Howard University, and others.

“I just think, especially in the Northeast, youth don’t get a lot of exposure to HBCUs,” said Timmons, noting that many of the schools are located in the South.

The college tours are organized through a group that Timmons and other Tuskegee alumni started. The April trip was the group’s 24th tour, he said.

“I think it’s important these kids understand there are other options, which might be more suited for their background,” he explained, adding that his experience at Tuskegee was an eye-opener. It helped him gain insight into himself—insight he might not have gotten had he not chosen an HBCU, he pointed out.

“At an HBCU, it’s more than the academic education you get,” said Timmons, citing “sense of self, sense of pride, and family unity.” S

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Trailblazing Executive Director of AMIE

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yron Hardiman is used to being a trailblazer. In 1969—just one year after the Civil Rights Act of 1968 came into effect—he received a B.S. in civil engineering from Purdue University. Just a few years later, he became one of the first AfricanAmerican professional engineers in the state of Indiana.

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n the years that followed, he earned an MBA from Indiana University and joined Eli Lilly and Company, where he began a twenty-year career.

He eventually became involved with Advancing Minorities’ Interests in Engineering (AMIE), a non-profit organization that works to increase the number of underrepresented minority students that pursue engineering careers. He has served as AMIE’s full-time executive director since 2001.

AMIE is a unique coalition of corporations, government agencies, and accredited historically Black colleges and universities’ (HBCUs) engineering schools.

“We focus on developing strong partnerships between our member organizations and HBCU engineering schools because we want to create long-term, win–win relationships. The companies and government agencies benefit from being able to access high-quality talent. The engineering schools benefit from the investments that we ask our members to make. But ultimately it’s the students who are the beneficiaries of the partnerships we put into place.”

How AMIE Makes a Difference

Begun as an initiative by Abbot Laboratories in 1992, AMIE’s impact extends far beyond simply facilitating the recruitment of engineering talent. Hardiman points out that most corporations and government agencies have limited interactions with colleges. They might attend a career fair and recruit on campus. They might even leave a check. AMIE, however, uses a different approach.

“We ask our organizations to invest in these engineering programs, and not just with dollars and cents—although none of these schools would turn away financial aid. We work with our member organizations to provide a range of support, from summer internships and co-op opportunities to faculty internships, guest lecturers, and funding research projects.

We ask them to donate equipment and to assist with the pre-college programs offered by each of the HBCU programs.

What we don’t do is follow a cookie-cutter approach. Instead, we focus on finding opportunities to enhance the engineering programs by working with what each member organization has to offer while addressing what they need from a talent perspective.”

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The Mindset of a Great Partner

AMIE has attracted high-level partners, from corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon to government agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Security Agency.

These collaborations are not an accident.

“Diversity is very important to those organizations.

They’ve made a conscious decision to support the HBCU engineering schools not just from a recruiting standpoint but from a financial resource standpoint.”

There Is Still Work to Be Done

The impact of the 15 HBCU engineering schools is measureable. Although relatively small in size, they collectively produce over 30 percent of the nation’s AfricanAmerican engineers. Twenty-five percent of Ph.D. science and engineering graduates received their undergraduate degrees from an HBCU school.

Despite this, the road ahead remains rocky.

Notwithstanding the fact that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is the top producer of AfricanAmerican engineers in the country or that Morgan State is the number one producer of African-American electrical engineers in the country, HBCUs must still overcome misperceptions about the quality of their engineering education.

The good news is that AMIE, along with its partner organizations, continues to explore collaborative ventures that not only showcase their students’ talents but demonstrate that HBCUs don’t just stand out in a competitive market place— they know how to shine. S

We focus on developing strong partnerships between our member organizations and HBCU engineering schools because we want to create long-term, win–win relationships...

From left to right: AMIE Alternate Board Member Oliver "B" Leslie (CCG); Wilbert Paynes (Army Corps of Engineers); Pat Burgess (AMIE); and, AMIE Chairman Darryl Stokes (Exelon)

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ockheed Martin Corporation has nearly 900 employees from 15 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

“Clearly, we are working hard to increase that number and

are confident we’ll attract a larger pool of candidates as a result of our partnerships with HBCUs and other organizations,” says Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president, and CEO of the global security and aerospace company, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Lockheed Martin—with the addition of Sikorsky—employs 126,000 people, with 60,000 engineers, scientists, and technology professionals in 590+ facilities, including major business areas in Maryland; Virginia; Washington, DC; and throughout the United States.

“To ensure we have the strongest pipeline of engineers, scientists, and technical professionals, we strive to recruit employees with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences,” Hewson said.

Long History of Recruiting from HBCUs

As one of the largest employers of scientists and engineers in the nation, Hewson also knows firsthand the critical shortage of talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

“The decline is even more pronounced in the African-American community,” she notes, citing a study that showed Black high school students’ interest in STEM has decreased by 16 percent since 2000.

While more Black college students are graduating with bachelor’s degrees, the percentage of those students that pursue STEM degrees has declined, she added.

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“As a global technology leader, Lockheed Martin is working to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We need to attract the best of the best talent to develop the breakthrough solutions that will shape the future.”

Lockheed Martin’s TwoDecade Partnership with AMIE

HBCU engineering “Our AMIE membership schools are located in allows us to foster Alabama, Florida, Virginia, genuine partnerships with Tennessee, Mississippi, engineering deans, campus Maryland, North Carolina, leadership, and students, and Texas, Louisiana, and as a result, Lockheed Martin Washington, DC. has recruited exceptionally With the global talented engineers and standard for programs in computer scientists,” applied science, computing, Hewson said. engineering, and engineering Lockheed Martin technology as determined by — Marillyn Hewson also partners with Career the Accreditation Board for Chairman, President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation Communications Group Engineering and Technology, (CCG) and the National all 15 of them produce a Society of Black Engineers sizable number of African(NSBE). These organizations host regional and national events American engineers in the workforce. that attract talented individuals.

“One third of African Americans receiving the B.Sc. in “Our engagement with these organizations helps us engineering in the United States receive them at HBCUs,” Eric to ensure that our STEM talent pipeline remains strong. In Sheppard, dean of the School of Engineering and Technology February 2016 we celebrated the 30th year of our partnership at Hampton University, notes, adding, “HBCUs are the with CCG at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) in baccalaureate origin of one-fourth of African Americans Philadelphia—it’s a relationship we intend to build on for many receiving the doctorate in engineering.” years to come,” she said.

Announcing the 2015 top supporters list, two deans from some of the largest HBCU engineering schools spoke of how Over 600 Campus Engagements mutually beneficial partnerships influence their universities.

Lockheed Martin’s operating units are organized into Dr. Robin Coger, dean of the College of Engineering and aeronautics, information systems, missiles and fire control, a professor of mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T space systems, and mission systems and training, which University, said ongoing engagements with partners are mission includes Sikorsky military and commercial helicopters. critical.

In a recent interview with The Engineer, Lockheed Martin’s “This is true for my College of Engineering at North CTO said hot areas that are an absolute trend for people to get Carolina A&T University and certainly true for the wider into are robotics, advanced manufacturing and digital design, group of the other AMIE (Advancing Minorities’ Interest in and coupled with new materials, new material science, and what Engineering) universities,” she said. chemistry is doing in nanotechnology. “Our business is built “For North Carolina A&T College of Engineering, on innovation, which is driven by the STEM fields,” Hewson partnerships are helping the students be ready, thoughtful, and explained. “As the demand for STEM talent continues to increase, impactful as they continue to become part of the workforce that we are putting greater emphasis on our college recruitment.” corporate and government partners so need in order to move In 2015 Lockheed Martin expanded their college recruiting their industry forward,” she said. efforts with over 600 campus engagements that included many Dr. Kendall Harris, dean of the Roy G. Perry College of minority and female student organizations. “As a result, we Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, said the College of had a more than 50 percent increase in the number of recent Engineering gave out over $600,000 in scholarships last year, graduates hired last year. We’ve conducted same-day interviews and the majority of those funds were raised from corporate and and made on-the-spot job offers at events like BEYA and the government partners.

NSBE convention,” Hewson said.

“But the money is more or less the easy part. They’re Lockheed Martin is also actively seeking veterans to apply hiring our students at the undergraduate and graduate level for positions. “Veterans are a natural fit for our company for permanent hires, internships, and co-ops. A large majority because they have firsthand knowledge of our customers’ of the total list are coming to our university, recruiting our needs, and their military service instills them with many of the students, actually impacting them, and helping them develop traits that define our culture of success, including integrity, their careers,” he said. teamwork, and dedication,” Hewson said. “That’s why Lockheed Corporate and industry partners also serve on Department Martin has participated in over 200 military hiring events and Advisory Boards, meaning they have direct access as part of the almost 36 percent of our external hires are veterans.” curriculum.

Around the world, the company has business locations “Maintaining strong communication lines helps achieve in over 70 countries and territories engaged in research, successful partnerships with AMIE universities on our common development, design, manufacture, integration, and goal of providing technical solutions and the workforce that is sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, well positioned to solve the complex and global problems of our and services. S time,” Harris emphasized.

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USBE&IT Magazine’s Top Supporters In an effort to strengthen the pipeline of qualified engineers, USBE&IT magazine does an annual survey with the engineering deans of the 15 ABETaccredited, historically Black college and university (HBCU) engineering programs and the corporateacademic alliance Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE).

The “Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering” survey asks these individuals to list the corporate and government/non-profit organizations that provide the most support to their schools. In completing the survey, the institutions consider support for modernization, research projects, and participation on advisory councils, faculty development opportunities, scholarships, student projects, stipends, co-ops, and career opportunities.

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2016 TOP SUPPORTERS OF HBCU ENGINEERING SCHOOLS TOP 10 INDUSTRY SUPPORTERS

TOP 10 GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS

î Lockheed Martin Corporation î The Boeing Company î Northrop Grumman Corporation î Boston Scientific Corporation î Xerox Corporation î Siemens AG î Raytheon Company î EMC Corporation î Chevron Corporation î Shell Oil Company

î U.S. Department of Energy î Naval Sea Systems Command î National Science Foundation î U.S. Army Corps of Engineers î U.S. Department of Defense î National Security Agency î Naval Air Systems Command î National Aeronautics and Space Administration î National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering î U.S. Department of Transportation

î Abbott Laboratories î Aberdeen Proving Ground, U.S. Army î Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineering (AMIE) î Aerojet Rocketdyne î Air Force Office for Scientific Research î Air Force Research Laboratory î Research, Innovation, Science and Engineering (RISE) Foundation at Alabama A&M University î Alabama Department of Transportation î Alabama Power Company î Altria Group, Inc. Avaya Inc. î Battelle Memorial Institute î Boston Scientific Corporation î CALIBRE î Chevron Corporation î City of Hampton, Virginia î The Clare Boothe Luce Program, Henry î Luce Foundation, Inc. î Commonwealth of Virginia î Corning Inc. Dell Inc. î Duke Energy Foundation î EMC Corporation î Entergy Corporation î Exelon Corporation î Exxon Mobil Corporation î Federal Highway Administration î Federal Railroad Administration î General Electric Foundation î General Motors Company î Genesis Energy, LP î Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. î Infosys Limited î Intel Corporation www.blackengineer.com

î I nternational Business Machines Corporation (IBM) î J acobs Engineering Group, Inc. î J ohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory î J ohnson & Johnson î J P Morgan Chase & Co. î L -3 Communications Holdings, Inc. î Leidos î L ockheed Martin Corporation î L ockheed Martin Foundation î L ouisiana Board of Regents î T he Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund î L ouisiana State University Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices îM erck & Co., Inc. îM ichigan State University îM issile Defense Agency î N ational Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) î N ational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) î N ational Institutes of Health (NIH) î N ational Science Foundation (NSF) î N ational Security Agency (NSA) î N aval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) î N aval Surface Combat Systems Center î N aval Sea Systems Command î N orthrop Grumman Corporation î N orthrop Grumman Foundation Nucor Corporation î O ffice of Naval Research î P PG Industries Foundation î P rocter & Gamble Co. î P urdue University

î The Raytheon Company î Riverside Foundation î Rockwell Collins î Rolls-Royce plc î SAIC î Sam's Club î Shell Oil Company î Siemens AG î Snap-on î SpaceX î Texas Instruments Incorporated î The Boeing Company î The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory î The Raytheon Company î Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. î U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center î BASF î U.S. Army Corp of Engineers î U.S. Army Materiel Command î U.S. Coast Guard î U.S. Department of Air Force î U.S. Department of Defense î U.S. Department of Education î U.S. Department of Energy î U.S. Department of Homeland Security î U.S. Department of Transportation î U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission î U.S. Navy î Verizon î Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. î Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. î Xerox Corporation SPRING 2016 I USBE&IT 25

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University Engineering Schools ABET, incorporated as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., is a non-governmental organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in “applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.”

Below are the 15 ABET-accredited historically Black college and university (HBCU) engineering schools: îAlabama A&M University

îPrairie View A&M University

îFlorida A&M University

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îTennessee State University

îHoward University

îTuskegee University

îJackson State University

îVirginia State University

îMorgan State University

îUniversity of the District of Columbia

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í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences

Institution Alabama A&M University (AAMU) is a teaching, research, and public service institution, including extension. AAMU is a dynamic and progressive institution with a strong commitment to academic excellence. The serene, intimate campus is situated on “The Hill,” only a short distance from downtown Huntsville, the site of the school’s founding. Alabama A&M University has four colleges with 41 baccalaureate, 23 master’s, one Ed.S., and four doctoral degrees offered.

College/School Overview The College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences is organized into four departments, each headed by a department chair: (1) mechanical and civil engineering, (2) electrical engineering and computer science, (3) technology, and (4) physics, chemistry, and math. The Bachelor of Science degree in the computer science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and the Bachelor of Science degrees in the 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 research ecosystem.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • electrical engineering • mechanical engineering • civil engineering • computer science • physics • mathematics • chemistry • construction management Graduate Degrees • Master of Engineering (material engineering and systems 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, IC www.blackengineer.com

fabrication • c rystal growth, large and small bandgap, and piezoelectric materials • i mage and signal processing and realtime embedded systems • c yber security, neural networks, and modeling and simulation in biometrics • c omputational electromagnetics, computational fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis • a dvanced manufacturing •u nmanned aircraft systems and robotics • i ntelligent manufacturing systems and advanced robotics •m ach-5 wind tunnel, rating 1000 cleanroom, three particle accelerators Point of Contact Dr. Chance M. Glenn, Sr. Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, Technology and Physical Sciences, Alabama A&M University Arthur J. Bond Hall 4800 Meridian Street Normal, AL 35762 Phone: 256.372.5560 / Fax: 256.372.5580 Email: Chance.glenn@aamu.edu Website: http://www.aamu.edu/academics/ engineering-technology/pages/default.aspx

FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering

Institution Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) was founded as the State Normal College for Colored Students, and on October 3, 1887, it began classes with 15 students and two instructors. Today FAMU, as it has become affectionately known, is the premiere school among historically Black colleges and universities.

Prominently located on the highest hill in Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee, Florida A&M University remains the only historically Black university in the 11-member State University System of Florida.

College/School Overview In its brief but impressive history, the College of Engineering has become one of the premier learning centers of its kind. The college offers comprehensive academic programs at all 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 college is a leading academic institution with excellent records of achievement in research and public service. The college has attracted an outstanding faculty from all over the

world. Having first-class programs with world-class facilities, such as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Materials Research Building, the Center for Advanced Power Systems, and the Aero-Propulsion Mechatronics and Energy Center, and faculty and staff who have a passion to educate, the college produces well-trained students with excellent entrepreneurial and job skills.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • c hemical engineering • c ivil engineering • e lectrical engineering • c omputer engineering • i ndustrial engineering •m echanical engineering Graduate Degrees •m aster’s and doctorate in chemical engineering •m aster’s and doctorate in biomedical engineering •m aster’s and doctorate in civil engineering •M aster of Engineering in civil engineering •m aster’s and doctorate in electrical engineering •m aster’s and doctorate in industrial engineering •m aster’s and doctorate in mechanical engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities •p olymers, materials, nanomaterials, and nontechnology • r enewable, advanced, and sustainable energy •b iomedical imaging, cellular, and tissue engineering • a dvanced transportation systems, structures, hydraulics • e nvironmental sustainability and water resources • i ntelligent systems, control, and robotics • c ommunication, information technology, and cyber security • a ctive and supersonic flow controls • s uperconductivity materials and applications •m anufacturing and operations research Point of Contact Bruce Locke, Ph.D., Interim Dean Phone: 850.410.6161 / Fax: 850.410.6546 Email: dean@eng.fsu.edu Website: www.eng.fsu.edu

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í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î HAMPTON UNIVERSITY School of Engineering and Technology

Institution A historically Black institution, Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character, and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts undergirding. The university offers exemplary programs and opportunities to enable students, faculty, and staff to grow, develop, and contribute to our society in a productive and useful manner. In carrying out its mission, the university requires that everything it does in the areas of teaching, research, and service be of the highest quality.

College/School Overview The School of Engineering and Technology (SET) is home to academic programs in architecture, aviation, and engineering. The school enrolls about 320 students and produces about 50 graduates annually. The SET strategic plan calls for expanding and strengthening the undergraduate offerings, building graduate engineering programs, and developing clearly defined research areas of excellence.

The school is also building contracting relationships with prime contractors in a variety of applications across federal agencies.

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Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • electrical and computer engineering • chemical engineering • aviation management • aviation management – air traffic control • flight education • computer science (school of science) • mathematical sciences (school of science)

• i maging (medical and non-medical) materials • r everse engineering • catalysis • manufacturing • i maging (medical and non-medical) • biomedical •m edical physics

Graduate Degrees • Master of Architecture • Master of Science in computer science (school of science) • Master of Science in physics (school of science) • Ph.D. in physics (school of science)

Point of Contact Dr. Eric J. Sheppard, Dean School of Engineering and Technology Hampton University 268 Marshall Ave Hampton, VA 23666 Phone: 757.728.6970 / Fax: 757.728.6972 Email: eric.sheppard@hamptonu.edu Website: http://set.hamptonu.edu

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences

Institution Howard University is one of the country’s leading private universities.

Founded in 1867 in Washington, DC, it is home to 13 HBCU schoolsPRODUCERS and colleges offering TOP TOP TEN OF undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and BLACK STEM PHDS professional degrees in a number of disciplines. The university continues to Institut attract the nation’s top students and produces more on-campus African- ➤ ENGIN American PhDs than any other university Howard University in the world. Since 1998 the 33% university has produced two Rhodes Scholars, two Morgan S Truman Scholars, 24 Fulbright Scholars, 20 Pickering Fellows, six Luard Scholars, and 13 Presidential Scholars.

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College/School Overview The College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS) is composed of the School of Engineering and Computer 9% Sciences Florida A&M University and the School of Architecture and Design. Howard graduates are skilled in creative design and the application of technological and scientific solutions to complex and challenging problems, interpersonal Alabama A&Mrelations, Universityteamwork, 8%critical thinking, and leadership. CEACS is home to six academic departments offering accredited undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. The departments are architecture, chemical engineering, Morgan State University 7% civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

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í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î power and control, electromagnetics and antenna, material sciences and nanotechnology, and digital systems • mechanical engineering: materials engineering, computational fluid mechanics, and manufacturing engineering/additive manufacturing • systems and computer engineering cybersecurity, computational biology, machine learning, data communications, and computer science education Point of Contact Dr. Achille Messac Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences 2366 6th Street NW Suite 100 Mackey Building Howard University Washington, DC 20059 Phone: 202.806.6565 / Fax: 202.238.8513 Email: AMessac@howard.edu Website: www.howard.edu/ceacs

JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY College of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Institution Jackson State University is a diverse, technologically-advanced four-year university steeped in history and committed to preparing its students to become global leaders. It provides a caring, nurturing environment in which to challenge its 9,134 students to improve themselves and serve others. It was founded in 1877 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society and is located in the state’s capital. In 1979 Jackson State was officially designated the Urban University of the state of Mississippi.

The university also has campuses in Madison, MS, and downtown Jackson.

College/School Overview The College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Jackson State University is committed to implementing the university’s mission and to focusing its intellectual, experience, and other resources on improving the quality of life for its students, the surrounding community, the state, the nation, and the global community. It is comprised of nine academic departments. Among them are the departments of civil engineering and computer and telecommunications engineering, which provide students with quality undergraduate and graduate programs that incorporate the systems aspect of professional engineering practice.

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increase in enrollment since 2010 and has been awarded 130 federally-funded grants and contracts with awards totaling approximately $30 million annually. It also has over 14 federally-funded student support programs.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science (engineering) • civil engineering • environmental track • general civil engineering track • electrical engineering • biomedical engineering • general electrical engineering track • power systems track engineering • computer engineering • computer science Graduate Degrees (engineering) • M.S. computer science • M.S. engineering • civil engineering • master’s and doctorate in mechanical engineering • computational engineering • electrical engineering • environmental engineering • geological engineering • telecommunications engineering Research Centers • Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence • Center for Defense Integrated Data • High Performance Computing Center • Interdisciplinary Center for Nanotoxicity • Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research • Centers in Minority Institutions • Center for Environmental Health Point of Contact Dr. Richard A. Alo, Dean College of Science, Engineering, and Technology Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street Jackson, MS 39217 Phone: 601.979.2153 / Fax 601.979.2058 Email: richard.a.alo@jsums.edu Website: www.jsums.edu/science

MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering

Institution Morgan State University is designated by the state legislature as Maryland’s Public Urban University and is primarily responsible for addressing the needs of residents, schools, and organizations within

the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Enrolling about 8,000 students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, the student body includes an enriching mix of international students. The mission of the university is to expose students to the full range of experiences and services that will permit them to successfully meet global challenges that await them as they leave the university.

College/School Overview Guided by the motto “The Premier Public Urban School of the Global Community,” School of Engineering enrolls about 850 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The school prides itself on offering programs that will ensure students develop a mastery of fundamental STEM-based principles, which may be applied effectively to benefit society. In addition to the nationally-competitive accredited programs in civil and environmental, electrical and computer, and industrial and systems related engineering, it also offers unique programs that address challenges associated with urban transportation systems. The school has earned a reputation for its close faculty/ student interaction, low student/faculty ratio, and opportunities for pre-professional experiences through internships. To ensure student success, Morgan State University has a diverse team of professionals working in close concert with faculty to assist students in the negotiation of the college environment. State-of-the-art facilities coupled with the program’s commitment to service are designed to achieve excellence through education.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • civil and environmental engineering • electrical and computer engineering • industrial and systems engineering • transportation and urban infrastructure Graduate Degrees • Master of Engineering • Master of Science in electrical engineering (online) • certificate in transportation systems • certificate in cybersecurity • doctorate of engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities • electrical and computer engineering • cybersecurity operations and physical systems • software defined and cognitive radio systems • RF/microwave/mm wave communication systems SPRING 2016 I USBE&IT 29

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í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î • computational engineering and analytics • high performance analog integrated circuits • biomedical engineering systems • wireless cybersecurity/information assurance • engineering education • image and signal processing • civil and environmental engineering, water resources and ground water systems • bridge/large-scale structural systems • geotechnical studies • geospatial and remote sensing studies • 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 mining • industrial safety and health • operations research

and Technology (CSET) has over 2,000 students and presently comprises over 30 percent of the university’s student enrollment. Undergraduate programs are ABET accredited, and graduate programs are driven by innovative, state-of-theart 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 75-year history. Faculty contributions in research, education, service, and mentoring are exceptional.

Graduates are securing outstanding jobs and are earning advanced degrees in record numbers. The college currently houses several research centers: the Center for Materials Research (CMR), the Information Assurance – Research, Education and Development Institute, the micro- and nano-technology center, and the creative gaming and simulation laboratory.

Point of Contact Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch, Dean Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering Morgan State University 5200 Perring Parkway Baltimore, MD 21251 Phone: 443.885.3231 / Fax: 443.885.8218 Email: Eugene.deloatch@morgan.edu Website: www.soe.morgan.edu

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science -electronics engineering -optical engineering -computer science – information assurance and computer engineering -information technology

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY College of Science, Engineering, and Technology

Institution Norfolk State University (NSU) is located in the vibrant urban city of Norfolk, VA, and is only 13 miles from the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach, VA. NSU is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and adheres to the standards set forth by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. NSU boasts a student population of 7,100 students and has a satellite campus at the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center. The university offers 32 undergraduate degrees, 16 master’s degrees, and three doctoral degrees, including B.S and M.S. in computer science, B.S and M.S. in electronics engineering, B.S. and M.S. in optical engineering, the M.S. in materials science, and the Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

College/School Overview The College of Science, Engineering, 32 USBE&IT | SPRING 2016

Graduate Degrees •m aster’s in electronics engineering •m aster’s in optimal engineering •m aster’s in materials science •m aster’s in computer science •m aster’s in computer science – cyber security •P h.D. in materials science and engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities • c yber security • i nformation assurance • c ognitive wireless networks and cloudcomputing security •d igital forensics • s mart grid security •m odeling of biological neurons •o ptics, plasmonics, and meta-materials •n ano-materials and nano-technology • a dvanced functional materials • devices • s emiconductor materials and devices •n eural probes • biosensors • photovoltaics •M EMS actuators •m ulti-functional sensors •h igh K dielectrics

Point of Contact Dr. Larry Mattix, Acting Dean College of Science, Engineering, and Technology Norfolk State University 700 Park Avenue Norfolk, VA 23504 Phone: 757.823.8180 / Fax: 757.823.9114 Email: lmattix@nsu.edu Website: https://www.nsu.edu/cset/ «

NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY College of Engineering

Institution North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University is a public, doctoral research, 1890 land-grant university committed to exemplary teaching and learning, scholarly and creative research, and effective engagement and public service. The university offers degrees at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels and has a commitment to excellence in a comprehensive range of academic disciplines. Their unique legacy and educational philosophy provide students with a broad range of experiences that foster transformation and leadership for a dynamic and global society.

College/School Overview The College of Engineering is proud of the quality of education and research of North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University and is inspired by the innovativeness, capabilities, and achievements of their engineering students, graduates, faculty, and staff.

Their bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs are distributed across seven departments: chemical biological and bio engineering; civil, architectural, and environmental engineering; computer science; electrical and computer engineering; industrial and systems engineering; mechanical engineering; and the interdisciplinary computational science and engineering program.

Academic Programs Departments • civil, architectural, and environmental engineering • chemical, biological, and bio engineering • computational science and engineering • computer science • electrical and computer engineering • industrial and systems engineering • mechanical engineering www.blackengineer.com

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Degrees Offered • architectural (B.S.) TOP HBCUengineering PRODUCERS OF • bio engineering (B.S., PHDS M.S.) BLACK STEM • biological engineering (B.S.) •Institution chemical engineering Percentage (B.S., of AllM.S.) Degrees • civil engineering (B.S., M.S.) ➤•ENGINEERING computer engineering (B.S.) • computational science and engineering (M.S., Ph.D.) 30% Morgan Statescience University • computer (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.) 24% Florida A&M University • mechanical engineering (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) Core Cross Departmental Research Strengths • energy and sustainability North Carolina A&T University 22% • healthcare applications • multi-scale materials development and analysis • aerospace and transportation11% systems Tuskegee University • wireless communications • cyber security and network operations Point of Contact

Dr. Robin N. Coger, Dean Howard University

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College of Engineering – McNair Hall North Carolina AT&T State University MarketSCIENCES Street ➤1601 PHYSICAL Greensboro, NC 27411 Phone: 336.285.2642 / Fax: 336.334.7540 Email: rncoger@ncat.edu Howard Website:University www.coe.ncat.edu 42%

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY – A MEMBER OF THE TEXAS 17%A&M Jackson State University UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Roy G. Perry College of Engineering

Institution 15% Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is a comprehensive public institution of higher education and a land-grant university part of the Texas 12% A&M Florida A&M as University University System. Founded in 1976, the university’s main campus is located in the city of Prairie View, approximately 40 miles northwest of Houston, Texas.

8% There Alabama A&M University are also two outreach campuses within the city limit of Houston. The university’s now AND exceeds 8,350, including ➤enrollment MATHEMATICS STATISTICS more than 2,000 AND COMPUTER ANDgraduate students.

PVAMU offers baccalaureate degrees in 50 INFORMATION SCIENCE academic majors, 37 master’s degrees, and four doctoral degree programs through nine colleges and schools. 50% During the Howard University university’s 135-year history, some 57,700 academic degrees have been awarded.

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College/School Overview The Roy G. Perry

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Engineering offers eight 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, computer science, and engineering technology. Housed in a five-building engineering complex on the Prairie View A&M 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 $8 million for funded projects annually from governmental agencies and private sectors. The college enrolls more than 1,350 students; about 10 percent of them are graduate students.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • c hemical engineering • c ivil engineering • c omputer engineering • c omputer engineering technology • c omputer science • e lectrical engineering • e lectrical engineering technology •m echanical engineering Graduate Degree •M aster of Science in engineering with concentrations in chemical, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering •M aster of Science in computer science •M aster of Science in computer information systems -Master of Science in electrical engineering -Ph.D. in electrical engineering -master’s or doctorate in mechanical engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities • t elecommunication, wireless sensor network, and battlefield communication • r adiation engineering and science for space exploration • r enewable energy and environmental sustainability •n ano-composites fabrication, characterization, and testing •d ata processing, image coding, virtual reality, and virtual prototyping • t hermal science and computational fluid SPRING 2016 I USBE&IT 33

í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î dynamics • Gulf Coast environmental data collection and analysis • high performance computing and cloud computing Point of Contact Dr. Kendall T. Harris, Dean Roy G. Perry College of Engineering Prairie View A&M University PO Box 519, MS 2500 Prairie View, TX 77446 Phone: 936.261.9890 / Fax: 936.261.9868 Email: ktharris@pvamu.edu Website: www.pvamu.edu/engineering

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE College of Engineering and Computer Science

Institution Southern University and A&M College, founded in 1880, is a publicly-supported, coeducational, land-grant, historically Black, comprehensive institution. The Southern University System is the largest HBCU system in the nation. It is composed of five campuses in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, the Agricultural Research and Extension Center, and the Law Center, and it is managed by the Southern University Board of Supervisors. Southern University and A&M College is a Carnegie master’s/ comprehensive-level institution with an average enrollment of 7,000 students at the Baton Rouge campus. It offers bachelor’s degrees in 42 areas, 19 master’s degrees, six doctoral degrees, and two associate degrees. During its proud 134-year history, the university had maintained its unique status as the “flagship” institution as the only historically Black university.

College/School Overview The College of Engineering and Computer Science 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 education programs that enhance career confidence. They also are encouraged to participate in ongoing research with faculty members that contribute to engineering innovations.

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college offers five undergraduate programs, in civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, and electronics engineering technology, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.

The college also offers two master’s degree programs: 1) The master of engineering program has three specialty areas: a. materials science and engineering b. sustainable systems engineering c. engineering management 2) The master of computer science program has two specialty areas: a. digital data communications b. database management and data mining Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • c ivil engineering • e lectrical engineering •m echanical engineering • e lectronics engineering technology • c omputer science Graduate Degrees •M aster of Engineering •M aster of Science in computer science Research Initiatives And Capabilities • i ndustrial wastewater treatment, air pollution, solid wastes •p avement design and management, nano-mechanics of clay materials • t elecommunications and computer network engineering • e lectronic materials and processing, semiconductor device fabrication • a dvance materials, micro- and nanotechnologies • r enewable energy and energy optimization, computational fluid and heat transfer •o perating systems and architecture, algorithms and theory of computing • s oftware engineering, digital data communications •d atabase management and data mining Point of Contact Dr. Habib P. Mohamadian, Dean College of Engineering and Computer Science Suite # 206, P.B.S. Pinchback Engr Building Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge, LA 70813-9969 Phone: 225.771.5296 / Fax: 225.771.5721 Email: habib_mohamadian@subr.edu Website: http://www.subr.edu/index.cfm/ subhome/5

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY College of Engineering

Institution Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational, and land-grant university offering undergraduate and doctoral degrees.

Founded in 1912, it is located in Nashville, TN, the state capital, and sits on 500 acres near the Cumberland River in a residential neighborhood just 10 minutes northwest of downtown. The university also has a downtown campus in Nashville. Tennessee State University provides 77 majors in eight undergraduate colleges and schools and enrolls about 7,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students.

College/School Overview The College of Engineering is committed to providing the highest quality industry-driven curricula in engineering, technology, and 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, sensor and data fusion, control systems, bioinformatics, energy systems, and wireless communication. The college currently had 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 National Science Foundation. The college enrolls about 900 students and produces about 75 graduates annually.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • architecture engineering • civil and environmental engineering • electrical and computer engineering • mechanical and manufacturing engineering • aeronautical and industrial technology • computer science • mathematical sciences Graduate Programs • Master of Engineering • Master of Science in computer and information systems engineering • Ph.D. in computer and information systems engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities www.blackengineer.com

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• cyber-security/physical systems • sensor fusionPRODUCERS OF TOPand TENdata HBCU • intelligentBLACK health monitoring and control STEM PHDS systems • data and network security • wireless communications • advanced transportation systems and infrastructure Howard University 33% • intelligent manufacturing systems and advanced robotics Point of Contact Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, Dean College of Engineering, Technology &14% Meharry Medical College Computer Science - Torrence Hall Tennessee State University 3500 John Merritt Blvd Nashville, TN 37209 Phone: 615.963.5401 / Fax: 615.963.5397 Florida A&M University 9% Email: skhargrove@tnstate.edu Website: www.tnstate.edu/engineering

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Institution Tuskegee University is a national, independent, and coeducational institution that Morgan has a historically unique relationship State University 7% with the State of Alabama, indeed the nation and the world. At its core, the university prepares students academically—graduate, professional, and undergraduate—for insertion into a world driven by technology, an independent landscape,6% and a Clark Atlantapolitical University society of complexity that needs solutions to challenging problems. The university has distinctive strengths in the sciences, architecture, business, engineering, and development of University high-order technical, Jackson State 6% scientific, intellectual, moral, and ethical qualities in students. Also stressed is the connection between education and the qualities of leadership that graduates must manifest, especially for the 21st century North and Carolina A&TThey University 4% workforce beyond. seek students whose technical, scientific, and professional qualities are rigorously honed and people whose spirits are sensitively oriented in ways that make them committed to go Morehouse School of Medicine beyond self-centered competence4%to excellence and service to others.

College/School Overview The College of Engineering, with an enrollment of 800 and regarded as Tennessee State University 3% premier for its production of exceptionally prepared graduates ready to perform with a broad educational background, graduates 100 undergraduate and graduate students annually. The college provides an academic portfolio through the disciplines www.blackengineer.com

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Howard University

42%

Jackson State University

17%

Clark Atlanta University

15%

Florida A&M University

12%

Alabama A&M University

8%

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Howard University

50%

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 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 postsecondary/graduate studies in engineering.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • aerospace science engineering • chemical engineering • electrical engineering • mechanical engineering Graduate Degrees • master’s in chemical engineering • master’s in electrical engineering • master’s in mechanical engineering • master’s in systems engineering • Ph.D. in materials science and engineering • master’s in materials science and engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities • aerospace: aerodynamics, flight simulation, human interface, aeronautics, manufacturing • chemical: bio-fluidics/fuels/chemicals, corrosion, environmental, water and wastewater modeling • electrical: electronic warfare, systems engineering, smart grid, adaptive networks, cyber security • mechanical: fatigue/corrosion, membranes, robotics, metallurgy, indoor air quality/food abatement • materials science: characterization, nanomaterials, performance/nondestructive evaluation Point of Contact Dr. Heshmat Aglan, Interim Dean College of Engineering, Foster Hall Tuskegee University 516 University Avenue, Suite 200 Tuskegee, AL 36088 Phone: 334.727.8355 / Fax: 334.727.8090 Email: haglan@mytu.tuskegee.edu Website: www.tuskegee.edu/academics/ colleges/ceps.aspx

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í HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS î UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Institution The University of the District of Columbia is a pacesetter in urban education that offers affordable and effective undergraduate, professional, and workplace learning opportunities.

The institution is the premier gateway to postsecondary education and research for all residents of the District of Columbia.

As a public land-grant institution, the university’s responsibility is to build a diverse generation of competitive, civicallyengaged scholars and leaders. Building on a 160-year tradition of excellence and opportunity, the university enrolls about 6,000 diverse students. As the nation’s only urban land-grant institution, the university’s mission is to foster the education, critical thinking, and intellectual growth of its students, the creation and application of new knowledge, and effective engagement with the surrounding world.

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. These programs enable immediate employment upon graduation or for continuation for advanced-level studies. The school offers strong, ABETaccredited bachelor degree programs in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering and computer science. SEAS also offers a bachelor degree program in information technology.

Academic Programs Bachelor of Science • civil engineering • electrical engineering • computer engineering • mechanical engineering • computer science • information technology Graduate Degrees -master’s of computer science -master’s of electrical engineering Research Initiatives And Capabilities • The Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy (CERE) is working with international agencies to develop energy power sources for pumping water.

• Assurance Research Center for Trusted Information Computing (ARCTIC) has been designated as the National Center 36 USBE&IT | SPRING 2016

of Excellence.

Research capabilities include the following: • cyber security • information assurance • high-performance computing • sensor networks • computational geometry • robotics • mechatronics • energy conversion • modeling and simulation • advanced manufacturing • product design • nanotechnology • renewable energy • rehabilitation engineering and bioassisted devices • structural engineering • water resources engineering • construction engineering Point of Contact Devdas Shetty, Ph.D., P.E., Dean School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of the District of Columbia 4200 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 Phone: 202.274.5220 / Fax: 202.274.5520 Email: devdas.shetty@udc.edu Website: http://www.udc.edu/school_of_ engineering_and_applied_sciences/school_ of_engineering_and_applied_sciences

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE Department of Engineering and Aviation Services

Institution The department offers a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering with a specialization in aerospace, computer, electrical, or mechanical. The department also offers a Bachelor of Science program in aviation sciences with a concentration in aviation electronics, aviation management, aviation software, or professional pilot.

Programs The mission of the engineering program is to provide a high-quality Bachelor of Science degree in engineering with a specialization in an aerospace, computer, electrical, or mechanical field.

The program incorporates undergraduate student research opportunities in its curriculum.

The Aviation Sciences program is Maryland’s only four-year bachelor’s degree program in aviation. They offer a Bachelor of Science in aviation science degree

with concentrations in professional pilot, aviation management, aviation electronics, and aviation software. In addition to the four-year residential program, students that have completed a two-year associate degree in aviation at the Community College of Baltimore County or another community college are offered the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree.

Facilities • 3 D Visualization & Virtual Reality Center •M IST Small Vehicle Mission Planning Lab •A dvanced Aviation Simulator Lab •A ir Traffic Controller Lab •A nalog Circuit Lab •D igital Circuit Lab • I nstrumentation and Control Lab •A dvanced Communication Lab •C omputer Lab •M ultimedia and Online Learning Lab Point of Contact Alvernon Walker, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor Department of Engineering & Aviation Sciences University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853 Phone: 410.651.8095 / Fax: 410.651.6486 Email: awalker1@umes.edu Website: https://www.umes.edu/EngAvi/ index.html

VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Engineering and Technology

Institution Virginia State University (VSU) was founded in 1882 in Petersburg, VA. It is one of Virginia’s two land-grant institutions and was the first state-supported fouryear institution of higher learning for Black Americans in the U.S. Today VSU has a student population of over 5,300 and offers 55 bachelor’s and master’s degrees, two doctoral degrees, and three certificates. Students study and conduct research in one of five schools: the School of Agriculture; the School of Business; the School of Engineering, Science and Technology (SEST); the School of Liberal Arts and Education; and the School of Graduate Studies, Research and Outreach.

School Of Engineering, Science And Technology The School of Engineering, Science and Technology is focused on solving tough problems. SEST defines success as the growth and discovery of fundamental knowledge and the movement of these ideas and results from the laboratory to www.blackengineer.com

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the real world. The goal is to transform communities by attracting and retaining key industries, enhancing economic development, and creating jobs. Their research helps companies improve their products and services for items as diverse as jet engines, copiers, and cutting tools.

The school aligns resources and capabilities to the workforce needs of local, regional, and national economies.

Undergraduate Programs Bachelor of Science • computer engineering • manufacturing engineering • computer sciences • information and logistics technology • psychology • chemistry • biology

Graduate Programs •M aster of Science in computer sciences •M aster of Science in mathematics •M aster of Science in biology/informatics •P h.D. in psychology Research Initiatives And Capabilities • c ognitive science and human behavior •u nmanned aerial systems • c yber security/big data • bioinformatics • e nterprise systems and logistics

Point of Contact Keith M. Williamson, Ph.D., Dean College of Engineering and Technology Virginia State University 1 Hayden Drive Petersburg, VA 23806 Phone: 804.524.1141 Email: kwilliamson@vsu.edu Website: http://www.cet.vsu.edu/ departments/engineering/index.php

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Morgan’s Dean DeLoatch:

Shaped

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t may be hard for today’s young career-climbers to imagine, but when the young Eugene DeLoatch grew up in Piermont-on-the

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he first hurdle was even getting into a respected program in science or technology. It bears remembering that

in the 1950s, when young Gene was climbing to student leadership at Tappan Zee High School, few of America’s best-known “mainstream” universities accepted African-American students at all, much less in science and engineering. But the post-World War II era was a time of tumult, and change was in the air.

Shaped by His Time

Eugene DeLoatch, an Honor Society and Camera Club member, track and field letterman, and member of the school’s movie projection crew, thus became both a beneficiary of the forces driving change in America’s racial landscape and, in time, a major driver himself in the decades-long push to expand opportunities for African Americans in STEM studies and in the technology enterprises powering America’s economic growth.

It began with an experiment. As Dr. De himself tells it, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, was one of a group of Methodist and Congregationalist Church-founded institutions that decided to promote “Three-Two,” joint degree candidate programs with historically Black colleges. Lafayette’s president had developed strong relationships with the presidents of Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University and Tougaloo College in the Deep South.

The young Eugene DeLoatch’s athletic exploits had attracted notice by the time he graduated in 1954, and he was recruited to go to Tougaloo. To be sure, his parents did not think heading down to Mississippi was such a good idea. Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s reversal of its 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling legalizing Jim Crow segregation, had just been handed down, but the mores and built-up practices of segregation were very much extant in the South and, with a wink and a nod, in many places in the North and West as well.

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Motivated Amid the Tumult

Young Eugene went anyway, despite his mother’s disquiet, partly prompted by the scholarship Tougaloo’s track coach offered but also strongly motivated by the promise of enrollment in the brand new “Three-Two” degree program, under which he would spend three years at Tougaloo and two more years at Lafayette, earning Tougaloo College’s bachelor’s degree in math and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College.

Events in the South continued to give DeLoatch’s mother pause.

In 1955, just across the Mississippi state line, a young black minister named Martin Luther King Jr. began to make national headlines leading a bus boycott against segregated seating in Montgomery, Alabama.

In the same state, Autherine Lucy had challenged segregation law at the University of Alabama. Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, and their NAACP colleagues, confident of success after their Supreme Court win in Brown, sued the university for its refusal to seat accepted grad-degree candidate Lucy once administrators realized she was Black. Lucy won the lawsuit but was shunned in classes, and in 1956 enraged white mobs chased her from the campus. The university, embarrassed by national news stories spotlighting the racial divide, unenrolled Lucy, saying it was for her own protection.

Tragedy Intrudes

Worse still, white men in Mississippi had lynched Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager, in 1955, allegedly for wolf-whistling at a white woman. News about the boy’s gruesome slaying made headlines around the world.

At Tougaloo, Eugene DeLoatch continued his studies, running track and winning trophies. His family, following the tragic news from up North and learning of the sham trial of Till’s murderers, worried about Eugene’s safety. And all the while, news of increased racial tensions in the South continued to burst into the headlines.

In 1957 wide television and newspaper coverage across the nation revealed the ugly events outside Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as federalized National Guardsmen escorted nine brave boys and girls to school.

That was about it for DeLoatch’s mother. His track coach argued against young Eugene’s persistence in moving to

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JHU President Ronald J. Daniels and MSU President David Wilson are joined by WSE Dean Ed Schlesinger, as well as by Dean Eugene DeLoatch and Interim Dean Alvin Kennedy of Morgan State’s Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering, at the signing of the Extreme Science Internships program partnership. Six of the first 8 students in the program also are pictured here.

Pennsylvania to complete engineering studies at Lafayette, but as he said in an interview, his mother would never go along with his staying any longer in the South.

Back to School in the North

In 1984, Morgan State landed Dr. DeLoatch as founding dean of the School of Engineering. Carrying forward his organizing approach as Howard’s electrical engineering chair, Dr. DeLoatch joined with fellow HBCU deans to develop the HBCU Engineering Deans Council.

In Easton, B.S. degree candidate DeLoatch met several other Black students, among them Ernest Levister, who had completed his three-year study at Lincoln University a year earlier.

Levister, a chemical engineering major who later became a physician, recounts troubling stories of his own about the de facto segregation and hostility he encountered in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Levister had grown up in Harlem.

The two New Yorkers shared similar outlooks, and, facing a Lafayette faculty replete with doubters about the capabilities of their new Black students and a decided lack of enthusiasm for the new program, became fast friends and later activists in promoting opportunities for African Americans pursuing careers in the sciences.

Later in their careers, Dr. Levister, serving as a member of the Lincoln’s Board of Trustees, worked with Dr. DeLoatch to develop a Memorandum of Understanding for a three-two program with Morgan State so Lincoln students could pursue engineering studies at Morgan. The program, similar in scope to what the two pursued at Lafayette, has not yet been put into effect but could be initiated in the future.

Another Bump in the Road

Upon his graduation from Lafayette, DeLoatch met an immediate roadblock. He had been a United Nickel scholar at Lafayette and figured that company would be a good place to start. But when he arrived at the personnel office, he was told in no uncertain terms there was no place for him.

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Thus, DeLoatch’s first placement came at the New York Light and Gas Corp., a public utility. And back in his home state, DeLoatch continued his development, taking part-time courses and finally enrolling at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, a school whose top-rate faculty included the author of a widely used textbook on control systems engineering, working in a building rocked every few minutes by the subway running underneath the street. DeLoatch completed his M.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in bioengineering.

On the way, Dr. DeLoatch got involved in a City University of New York program called the Urban Center, in Manhattan. Drawing faculty from all CUNY campuses, it provided six months to a year of prep studies for minority students looking to enroll in CUNY schools. The dean of the CUNY Graduate School had tapped DeLoatch for help with the Center’s remedial programs in math, reading, and writing. As a full-time graduate student, Dr. DeLoatch coordinated the math component and handled two courses in the City College of New York’s engineering program and at Manhattan Community College.

On the March at Howard

Finally, doctoral degree in hand, DeLoatch was recruited to Howard University’s faculty. Serving at Howard from 1971 to 1984, Dr. DeLoatch rose to head the Electrical Engineering Department, beginning a long career as an organizational leader as well as a committed mentor of African Americans in engineering.

At Howard, Dr. DeLoatch found that many companies, including Bell Laboratories, General Electric, and others, were willing to provide support with internships for students and

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small grants of $25,000 to $30,000 a year for program support.

Meeting with other HBCU engineering department heads, he heard a common complaint: When students returned from their internships, they were unable to continue the research begun at the companies. Program funding was too limited.

Dr. DeLoatch formed an Electrical Engineering Department Chairs Committee with his colleagues at the five other HBCU schools—North Carolina A&T State, Tennessee State, Southern, Tuskegee, and Prairie View A&M universities—and together with his co-chairs, pushed the supporting companies to aggregate the funds in their six-year support programs so that there would be adequate funding for the student research.

HBCU Deans Not Quite Equal

He also observed that HBCU had limited input in the Engineering Development Committees formed by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The committees were supposed to support the development of HBCU engineering programs, helping to prep their faculties for ABET accreditation reviews, but while the HBCU deans could attend the meetings, they could not vote on initiatives.

Problem? You bet!

In 1984, after a hot pursuit, Morgan State University landed Dr. DeLoatch as Founding Dean of the Clarence Mitchell School of Engineering.

Carrying forward his organizing approach as Howard’s Electrical Engineering Chair, Dr. DeLoatch joined with his fellow HBCU deans to develop the HBCU Engineering Deans Council, a recognized body of the ASEE.

in Engineering), the corporate-academic partnership to provide support for HBCU engineering programs. Hosting AMIE’s executive leadership at Morgan State’s Baltimore campus, Dr. DeLoatch also has seen the growth of HBCU engineering programs from the six early leaders to 15 today.

Leadership at the Top

In 2002–2003 Dr. DeLoatch received a singular honor when he won election as the first ever (and only) African-American educator to hold the position of President of the American Society for Engineering Education, the world’s most populous and prestigious engineering education organization.

Dr. DeLoatch also has served ASEE as its vice president for public affairs as chairman of ASEE’s Projects Board and by sitting on ASEE’s Policy Committee. A Life Member, he is a Fellow of the ASEE. Among his many other activities, Dr. DeLoatch is a past member and Secretary of the Directors of the Maryland Technology and Economic Development Corporation (TEDCO); an associate editor of ASEE Journal of Engineering Education; Chairman of the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities; a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society; a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society; and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He also is a Life Member of the NAACP and the National Technical Association.

Meeting with other HBCU engineering department heads, he heard a common complaint: when students returned from their internships, they were unable to continue the research begun at the companies. Program funding was too limited.

A National Push in Diversity

The move to Baltimore had another major consequence.

Meeting with Tyrone Taborn, CEO of US Black Engineer & Information Technology publisher Career Communications Group, Dr. DeLoatch became co-founder of the Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards, presented at national Competitiveness Conferences each February since 1987. That awards series, established both to showcase African-American talent across the spectrum in the technology enterprise, in government as well as in corporate America, and to motivate employers to look harder at what can be accomplished with a more diverse, multi-talented, multi-cultural workforce, now is seen as providing career-changing recognition by many employers. The most recent awards presentation and conference, held in Philadelphia, attracted some 8,000 attendees, among them 1,600 college students.

During his tenure at Morgan, Dr. DeLoatch also helped midwife the formation of AMIE (Advancing Minorities’ Interest

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Helping Out Where He Can

Dr. DeLoatch has served on study commissions and boards of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He also has served on the Technical Advisory Board for Whirlpool Corporation and the Scientific Review Board of the Lister Hill National Center of the National Library of Medicine. His research has been funded by a range of agencies, including the NSF, NASA, the DOE, Defense Department, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Office of Naval Research, and companies such as Rockwell, Hughes, and Lockheed Martin as well as the National Institutes of Health.

The list goes on, but a key accomplishment is that from a standing start, Dr. Eugene DeLoatch propelled Morgan State’s Mitchell School into the top five ranks of institutions graduating African-American engineers. He’s announced his retirement as dean after a 32-year march to create an astounding legacy in engineering education.

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hese are challenging times for engisubject matter experts that don’t currently neering and technology schools as exist. Some of the gaps we are seeing in they try to prepare future tech specialindustry are data scientists, computer ists at a time when so much in their fields is engineers, and professions that have shifting, changing, and advancing. the ability to understand environmental JEM PAGAN, director of technology sciences. We are also seeing a real gap in strategies at a New York City firm, noted that environmental engineering and how it can what’s being observed in the industry is that impact our world from a totally different traditional single focus engineering degrees perspective than the current focus on are not as valuable as they once were. energy conservation.”

“We’re seeing more of a need for a DR. ROBIN N. COGER, dean of the Jem Pagan cross pollination of engineering skill sets,” College of Engineering and a professor of Director of Technology Strategies said Pagan. “A pure electrical engineer mechanical engineering at North Carolina JNK Securities doesn’t necessarily have the same value as Agricultural and Technical State University a computer engineer with a background in in Greensboro, NC, said that fields are material science. constantly evolving, and therefore colleges “In the very near future, you are going to walk into a and universities must find ways to send their graduates into the building like this and see all sorts of devices talking to each workforce able to adapt and be forward thinking. other in real time. In order for that to happen, it requires “If you try to educate an engineer or computer scientist 44 USBE&IT | SPRING 2016

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“If you try to educate an engineer or computer scientist only based on the field of right now, they wouldn’t be able to adapt or be as agile as we would want them to be as it continues to move...”

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only based on the field of right now, they wouldn’t be able to adapt or be as agile as we would want them to be as it continues to move,” said Coger. “So that’s what’s important to us to still work their major because that’s the approach by which they go into the problem, but they have to have experiences that help them to be more adept at applying to the various different Dr. Robin N. Coger Dean, College of Engineering, fields. That’s where the Professor of Mechanical Engineering experiential learning at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University comes in; that’s where the engagement and research come in. Then they start asking different questions outside their major.”

DR. HESHMAT AGLAN, interim dean of the College of Engineering at Tuskegee University, said engineering education is facing a dilemma.

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innovative ways of giving them some extracurricular activities or some research experiences for undergraduates or Capstone design or research projects to compensate for that.”

Aglan gave an example of a situation that occurred four years ago when a company came to them and said they were having difficulties finding students knowledgeable about metallurgy.

Tuskegee did not have a Dr. Heshmat Aglan Interim Dean, College of metallurgy department Engineering but agreed to work with Tuskegee University the company; from that collaboration, the New Core Education and Research Center was created and funded by the company. Through the center, eight students are selected each year to work with industry on eight projects. The students have a mentor from the company as well as the university. At the end of the year, the students have helped to solve an industry problem.

Aglan said Tuskegee is attempting to replicate this process with other companies, such as Chevron and Mobil.

Dr. Keith Williamson, dean of the School of Engineering, Science and Technology at Virginia State University, said his school participates in an innovation system.

“We have a research network in Virginia that’s made up of Rolls Royce, Airbus, and their various supply chains…and in that innovation system the companies bring applied projects to fund it, and they share or work on collaborative projects and also work on directed projects,” said Williamson. “So we participate and bring our capabilities to the network, and we pick up the various signals from the network so it’s a systemic thing in that case. The pain point is we have some IP restrictions on the technology we come up with. But the thing is to invest in your faculty capability in these networks to extract the signal.” S SPRING 2016 I USBE&IT 45

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here’s no question about it: Data is the new dollar, and colleges are gearing up their graduates for a networked world.

Whether you are a private corporation or the Department of Defense, it is probable your manifestation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) involves sensors, a system or machine or groups of machines, software associated with each, and quite a bit of data, explains Robin N. Coger, dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University and a mechanical engineering professor.

Coger adds that the physical parts of the IIoT tend to be linked to the virtual parts via communication through a network.

“Hence, threaded throughout the possibilities of the IIoT is the simple fact that its accomplishments will persistently be tested by those who seek to compromise its networks,” she said. “Considering all of the elements of the IIoT, what single academic major has the necessary skills to proactively defend against such attacks, detect and counter compromises when they occur, and design new solutions to reduce vulnerability to future attacks?”

Cross-Disciplinary Approach Works Best

Within A&T’s College of Engineering, they have found that the cross-disciplinary approach works best. Researchers across several disciplines—computer science, computer engineering, industrial and systems engineering, electrical engineering, and others—team together.

“This is enabling our college’s researchers to extend what began as innovations in cyber-identity and evolutionary computing to be extended to new frontiers critical to the reliability of the IIoT,” Coger said.

At Virginia State University, computer-manufacturing engineering, computer science, and other related programs are also helping students explore real-time communication between sensors and networks that connect the physical to the cyber world.

Integration is taking on several forms.

“We are creating an Industry 4.0 lab, where students can study and research the application of Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing,” said Keith Williamson, dean of Engineering, Science and Technology and associate vice president for research and innovation.

“Our assembly system consists of multiple assembly robots, automated material handling systems, and a vision control quality assurance system all connected to an ERP system through embedded sensors and RFID.” Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are intelligent bar codes that can talk to a networked system to track every product that you put in your shopping cart.

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"Considering all of the elements of the IIoT, what single academic major has the necessary skills to proactively defend against such attacks, detect and counter compromises when they occur, and design new solutions to reduce vulnerability to future attacks?”

— Dr. Robin Coger, Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows organizations to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate back office functions related to technology, services, and human resources.

Industry 4.0

VSU’s Industry 4.0 lab allows students to gain hands-on experience in creating IoT networks and will also be used to study condition-based maintenance based on predictive analytic models collecting data from the IoT network.

Raymond Boykin, a research professor in Information Logistics Technology and a System, Applications & Products in Data Processing (SAP) Fellow, is focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP) logistics information systems and supply chain risk.

“Our second initiative is closely related and involves IoT in the design and fabrication of our SAE Formula,” Boykin adds.

“This application includes connected communications with the machines utilized in the manufacturing process and the connection of the PLM software (Siemens Team Center) with the ERP software,” he said, adding that there are plans to www.blackengineer.com

expand this into the race car monitoring system to track vehicle performance.

The third initiative involves bringing the economics baccalaureate and masters programs to the College of Engineering and Technology.

Given the nature of IoT ecosystems, VSU anticipates the need for dual programs that merge technology with economic theory.

“Specifically, we anticipate the need for new economic models specifically aimed at technology-related industries facing rapidly changing market challenges,” Williamson said.

Within the context of technology-focused learning outcomes, the goals are to provide students with new concepts for value creation as IoT shifts economic models for capturing value. In this sense, VSU aims to establish a vision for entrepreneurship where value creation in the traditional product mindset shifts from solving existing needs in a reactive manner to solving problems in real time and in a predictive manner.

On February 1, 2016, Dr. Abdullah became Virginia State University’s 14th president with a pledge to transform the institution into “Virginia’s Opportunity University.”

At 24, Abdullah became the youngest African American in Northwestern’s history to receive a Ph.D. in engineering.

"We are at the front and in the business of getting better,” Dr. Abdullah said.

“The integration of the Internet of Things into our courses is evidence that we are providing quality and innovation into our programs to provide our students with experiences that will give them meaningful opportunities in STEM-related fields when they graduate,” he said. “We are excited to be a part of this innovative learning experience.”

The Higher Education Research and Development Survey shows Virginia State University (VSU) recently spent $8.37M on R&D. Compared to other research universities, VSU spends an average amount of money on research (average: $8.17M).

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Howard’s new research building located at 2201 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, is a cornerstone of the university’s academic renewal.

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magnetic interferences, which present potential problems to Nano-research undertakings.

“Through the expansion of our interdisciplinary collaborations, we will maximize our strengths as a university,” said Wayne A.I. Frederick, a professor of surgery and cancer specialist who

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Now completed, the buildings will enhance the quality of academic and social life for thousands of Howard’s students.

The residence halls, which cost $170 million, will accommodate 1,360 students, and the $70-million, 80,000-square-foot Interdisciplinary Research Building (IRB) will enrich the research and instructional environment.

The research facility supports development biology and stem cell research, a natural product chemistry lab, atmospheric physics and climatology, and immunology and nanotechnology research.

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has served as the president of Howard University since July 2014.

“We also look forward to attracting and retaining faculty, fostering more cross disciplinary scientific investigation, training graduate students using technology, and enhancing our research platform,” Frederick said. “It will also allow us to maximize the use of all of our strengths as an institution.”

Frederick enrolled at Howard as a 16-year-old from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to pursue his dream of becoming a physician.

He earned a dual Bachelor of Science–M.D. degree program at 22 and went on to enter a surgical residency at Howard University Hospital. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship and a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and earned a Master of Business Administration from Howard’s School of Business.

Frederick previously served as the university’s interim president, provost, and chief academic officer, charged with oversight of Howard’s 13 schools and

colleges as well as its health sciences enterprise.

Howard’s new research building, located at 2201 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, is a cornerstone of the university’s academic renewal initiative to boost enrollment and college ranking.

It’s also an important work of innovative architecture for the nation’s capital and the historic Georgia Avenue Corridor, a public expression of Howard’s commitment to 21st century research.

The building includes wet and dry laboratories, instructional space, research support space, ground floor retail, and centralized offices for faculty, students, and academic staff.

In 2014 Frederick told the New York Times that students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) account for 3 percent of all students enrolled at colleges and universities in the United States but a total of 18 to 20 percent of African-American college graduates.

“They represent a very important pipeline,” he said. “Also, a large number of Ph.Ds. in STEM are coming from HBCUs, of which Howard is the number one producer. So it’s definitely in the national interest.”

At the groundbreaking ceremony, U.S. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) described Howard as a “jewel” in Washington and also emphasized that it is an important driver of growth in the city.

“Howard University shaped this city,” Norton said. “The university attracted middle-class African Americans and helped establish the surrounding neighborhoods. When Howard University builds, its impact is far-reaching in our city,” she said.

Partners for the IRB include Turner Construction, Hochtief, Brailsford & Dunlavey, and HDR Architecture.

Partners for the student housing buildings include Provident Resources Group, Campus Apartments, RBC Capital, Clark Construction, and McKissack & McKissack.

Addisson Barry Rand, former chairman of the Board of Trustees, Howard University, said both projects would help the university attract and retain students. Like Norton, he is a native of Washington, D.C. He said the university provided him with exemplars whose standards and success convinced him that he too could achieve.

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Today, thirty years of talent pipeline development have resulted in the BEYA STEM K–12 program, BEYA STEM Educator Network, Top Employers Circle, BEYA STEM Professional Training, BEYA STEM job/career fairs, and various recognition programs.

The photos taken at the 30th annual BEYA STEM Conference show the results that decades of CCG talent pipelining have achieved.

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Dr. Eugene DeLoatch, the dean of engineering, Morgan State University, and Tyrone Taborn, publisher of USBE magazine, planned BEYA over lunch at the Engineering Society of Baltimore.

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Grambling State grad (center) got a job offer from JP Morgan Chase in Delaware. (right) a junior, Chemistry major) received an internship offer from FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) and (senior, Engineering Technology major) received a job offer from Huntington Ingalls Industries.

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DR. JEFFREY TATE, ENGINEERING FELLOW AND CHIEF SCIENTIST at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, accepts his Scientist of the Year award at BEYA STEM.

Abbott Laboratories has been advancing minorities’ interest in engineering since 1992. Each year, they are ranked in the Top Supporters list, reaching more students in the STEM pipeline at HBCUs.

WWT CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD DAVID L. STEWARD, 2012 Black Engineer of the Year, is flanked by BEYA alumni and corporate executives from Boeing.

LOCKHEED MARTIN’S STEPHANIE C. HILL, M2014 Black Engineer of the Year, inspires young people to pursue their dreams and careers in STEM.

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION CEO, CHAIRMAN, AND PRESIDENT WES BUSH presents the 2016 BEYA to Dr. Chris Jones for his outstanding technical and professional contributions, among other achievements.

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n the three decades since Career Communications Group (CCG) held its first job fair, the Baltimore, MD, based talent company has built lasting partnerships with American employers that have the most STEM jobs. But CCG’s name doesn’t just resonate with employers that have made important progress toward hiring a workforce that reflects America’s diversity; the company’s audiences of college and pre-college students have nothing but praise for the work it does, in particular, the job fair at the annual BEYA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Global Competiveness Conference.

A CCG-sponsored annual national conference, BEYA STEM provides an annual forum for employers to find the best and the brightest scientists and engineers.The BEYA STEM Conference Job Fair connects STEM students and professionals with companies and government agencies that have the most STEM job openings.

Below are testimonials from students and professionals who came to the 30th BEYA STEM Job Fair, which was held in February 2016 during Black History Month.

CEO hire on the spot...

During the 30th BEYA STEM Conference, Elisha Frazier, a junior EE student at Jackson State, met Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush at a seminar.

When the seminar ended, Frazier introduced himself to an NG employee, who whisked him off to an HR professional. That led to a one-on-one between CEO and student. “We had a really good conversation. He seemed willing to talk to me for a minute. I mentioned it was my first time at BEYA, my first time hearing of or being exposed to Northrop Grumman. It seemed like a great company,” Frazier said. The CEO said, “Take my business card. Go to our career booth, and tell them I sent you.” While Frazier doesn’t know which field of study he’ll focus on in his internship, he hopes to study in NG’s Electronic Systems. “My first time going to BEYA and my first exposure to a big company—a Fortune 500 company. I had never heard of Northrop Grumman. I get introduced to the CEO; I get hired on the spot,” Frazier said.

Amazing opportunity...

“This is Firmin Saint-Amour from Towson University. I am emailing you to thank you for reaching (out) and for the amazing opportunity to attend the conference. It was a great experience, talked to a lot of companies, and learned a lot.”

You were always available...

To Rod, thank you for all of your help. It was really valuable to meet with you here at Hopkins before the conference. I’m sure handling so much of the logistics kept you extremely busy during the conference, but you were always available whenever I needed help or additional information.

—Theo Moss, Senior, Johns Hopkins University

Received internships/ job offers...

“Hello, Mr. Taborn, this is Jarett Triplett from Grambling State University. We met at the host hotel during this year’s BEYA conference. My two fellow colleagues and I received internships/job offers. We are all from Grambling State. I received an offer from JP Morgan Chase in Delaware.

Albert Morris (junior, chemistry major) received an internship offer from FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles). Dominique Wilson (senior, engineering technology major) received a job offer from Huntington Ingalls Industries. Let me know if you have any more questions about our experience.”

Our participants expressed their gratitude...

“I just want to thank you for inviting ITT Technical Institute students and graduates to the 2016 BEYA STEM/Job Fair Conference. The planning and organization provided was excellent. Our participants were able to be transported from our campus location to the job fair without any miscommunications. Everything was handled in a most professional manner. Our participants expressed their gratitude in having the opportunity to meet with several employers, corporations, and government institutions during the job fair. Many came back with solid contacts and potential employment and internship opportunities that will assist in moving their career goals forward. Again, thanks for the opportunity, and we look forward to participating next year. Thanks in advance for your support.”

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