BEYA 2011 Sponsors
• Lockheed Martin Corporation • The Boeing Company • General Dynamics Corporation • General Motors • The MITRE Corporation • Naval Air Systems • Northrop Grumman Corporation • The Raytheon Company • Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. • U.S. Air Force • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers • U.S. Army ROTC • U.S. Navy • Aerotek
• Booz Allen Hamilton • Constellation Energy • Harris Corporation • BAE Systems • IBM Corporation • NAVSEA
• U.S. Coast Guard • Office of Naval Research • 3M Company • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory • ITT Corporation • Exelon • Merck & Co., Inc. • Missile Defense Agency • NAVFAC • AMIE • Defense Information Systems Agency
• NASA Glenn Research Center • National Security Agency • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • SRI International • SPAWAR • T-Mobile
SUPPORTERS BEYA is the brainchild of Career Communications Group
CEO Tyrone Taborn, who also publishes a number of diversity titles including US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. “Tyrone’s vision is inextricably linked to democracy and America’s economic system, and our responsibility to it is realized not just for black America, Hispanic America or Native America but for America,” Ted Childs said. BEYA’s first event was held February 1987 at Morgan State University in Baltimore. “The timing of the event was not ac- cidental,” said Eugene M. DeLoatch, veteran dean of the School of Engineering at Morgan State and longtime chairman of the Council of Engineering Deans of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. “It was planned to coincide with observance of National Engineers Week and to serve historically as a fitting tribute to those close to Black History Month.” Bill Granville was a high-ranking oil executive when he
attended BEYA in 1987. He filed a positive report with Mobil. Mobil’s CEO, seeing that diversity and inclusion made business sense, wrote a letter to other Fortune 500 CEOS, telling them he had discovered a talent development program he thought they should support. The rest, as they say, is history. Top defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corporation, has
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co-hosted BEYA for more than a decade, and corporate atten- dance reaches to the executive levels of management. “You see these major corporations get excited – Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing – these major players and their CEOs,” said David Steward, founder and chairman of St. Louis-based Worldwide Technology Inc. “And they are there to recognize the significant contributions these African-American engineers and leaders not only make to business, but to society.” In the mid-1980s, when BEYA was initiated, black repre- sentation among the nation’s 1.6 million engineers was only two percent – 32,000 men and women. By the turn of the millen- nium, many baby boomers were heading towards retirement and there was a need for younger professionals to take their place in the workforce. “Demand for qualified STEM professionals has grown considerably in the past 25 years, and it will only con- tinue to expand,” said Tyrone Taborn. “Our advancements come from intrepid engineers and technologists, from business execu- tives bold enough to take chances.” And BEYA has become an important hub for these intrepid engineers and bold executives to connect with one another. “It’s exciting to be around,” Steward
said. “It’s contagious.” A version of this article first appeared in the St Louis American newspaper.
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