2014 Top Supporters of HBCU ENGINEERING SCHOOLS
Lockheed Martin provides in-kind support to senior design projects, student organizations, conferences, and training and development initiatives. They work to identify students to fill more than 4,000 full-time, intern and co-op opportunities. Raytheon recruits engineers in most of the field’s disciplines, and a program called GENESIS was set up to train new and recent graduates totaling 15 per year. They have campus teams for each HBCU with a designated campus manager and a campus executive assigned. “Their job is to ensure that we are engaging the HBCU deans and giving them the support they need to help them achieve their mission of educating students,” said engineering learning strategy leader, David Anderson. UGS has worked closely with the Advancing Minorities in Engineering (AMIE) organization to provide in-kind software grants valued at more than $600 million to HBCU engineering schools, empowering students with the same product-lifecycle management tools used by leading manufacturers. AMIE is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to
expand corporate, government, and academic alliances to implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate and place underrepresented minority students in engineering careers.
Over the span of the annual USBE&IT Top Supporters
survey, employers have measured effectiveness of HBCU programs in a variety of ways. Some look at the number of interns, full-time hires, and graduates; how they have progressed and promoted up the career ladder to influence strategic decisions. Others have undertaken an analysis of acceptance ratios and ongoing retention and performance metrics each year. They measure all schools on hiring metrics, which include yields, quality and retention, using survey data and benchmarking.
In short, said one CEO, “The AMIE partners and HBCU deans have developed a balanced scorecard for monitoring progress and establishing criteria for continuous improvement.”
AMIE: ACHIEVING DIVERSITY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
panies and Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-accredited Historically Black College and University (HBCU) engineering schools. AMIE shares a belief that science and technology is the key to the future of the world’s increas- ingly global economy and society.
A ABBOTT LABORATORIES
Abbott Laboratories, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is a pharmaceuticals and healthcare products company. Abbott oper- ates in over 130 countries and has 69,000 employees. In 2010, revenues rose to over $35 billion for the Fortune 200 company. AMIE grew out of a discussion held at the 1991 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference between Dan Streubel, then vice president at Abbott Laboratories, and Lucius Walker, dean of Howard University (1978-95). The conversation was focused on increasing minority students in engineering and an industry-academic collaboration with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) that could do a better job of produc- ing Black engineers. In 1992, Streubel and the deans of HBCU engineering schools invited representatives of the Fortune 50 to discuss forming just such an organization. The meeting grew in 1993 to include firms on the Fortune 150 list, and AMIE evolved from that conference.
THE BOEING COMPANY Boeing is the world’s top aerospace company and largest maker of commercial jetliners and military aircraft. Boeing em- ploys more than 170,000 in the U.S. and elsewhere. More than 140,000 personnel earned college degrees and nearly 35,000 earned advanced degrees in virtually all technology and business disciplines.
Boeing has been a Corporate Member of the AMIE Board
since the organization’s inception over 20 years ago. Through- out this time, we have had a very strong and strategic relation-
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dvancing Minorities’ Interests in Engineering is a coalition of engineering professionals from America’s leading com-
ship with AMIE. AMIE’s vision and mission align well with Boeing’s goal to influence the curricula and experiences of talented and diverse students at AMIE HBCU member schools so that they can join our company and quickly become capable contributors. The suc- cess of our collaborative relationship has come through alignment and partnering on cutting-edge research and the technol- ogy experiences gained by the students, as well as our joint efforts to build and
Dianne Chong Vice President BR&T Materials, Manufacturing Structures & Support
promote a strong and diverse pipeline of talented students.
CAREER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, Inc. Career Communications Group (CCG) has built partner- ships with top companies and government agencies in America. The strength of these relationships has developed around CCG’s integrated group of magazines, dynamic Web sites, and annual conferences that provide a forum for organizations to find and retain professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. CCG connects STEM professionals, college and university students, and pre-college students with the organiza- tions that have the potential to fulfill their career goals. CCG reaches tens of thousands of students and professionals each year with the goal of introducing them to opportunities and providing the motivation to take that next step to a high-potential, technol- ogy-oriented career.
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