2014 Top Supporters of HBCU ENGINEERING SCHOOLS 2014 TOP SUPPORTERS OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS ADVANCING NEW GENERATIONS OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES
areer Communications Group, Inc.’s annual major survey on supporters of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Engineering Programs has found that more than 80 of the larg- est private and public sector employers in America are considered most supportive of historically Black engineering schools.
C Career Communications Group (CCG) asked the deans of
the 14 ABET-accredited, HBCU engineering programs to list 10 corporate AND government sponsors they feel contribute most to their institutional mission. There were many duplications. But, in all, 85 separate organizations were named. These include profit and not-for-profit corporations, as well as federal, state, and municipal public bodies and authorities.
Top Corporate Supporters Lockheed Martin Corporation is 2014’s Top Supporter
Lockheed Martin ranked number one as a top corporate supporter. The aerospace, defense, security and advanced technol- ogy company got the most mentions from HBCU engineering deans and AMIE. American multinational corporations Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Chevron also got top mentions. Below are the employers in ranking order of mentions.
Top 10 Corporations 1. Lockheed Martin 2. Boeing 3. Northrop Grumman 4. Raytheon 5. Chevron 6. Shell 7. 3M 8. Exxon Mobil 9. Alabama Power 10. Siemens
Corporate Supporters • Aerotek • Booz Allen Hamilton • Huntington Ingalls • BAE Systems • Bosch • BP • General Electric • General Motors • Harris Corporation • Hewlett-Packard • Honda
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Participants in the survey also included board members of the corporate-academic alliance, Advancing Minorities’ Inter- est in Engineering (AMIE). AMIE was asked which nonprofit or government organizations provide the most support to Black engineering schools.
• Honeywell • IBM • Jacobs Engineering • John Deere • JP Morgan Chase • KCI Technologies • L3 • MeadWestvaco Foundation • Merck • Microsoft • Mistras Group, Inc. • Norfolk Southern • Procter and Gamble • Southern Company • Stanley Black & Decker • The Freelon Group • Toyota Company • Unisys • Xerox
Top 10 Government and Nonprofit Supporters
1. Department of Energy 2. NASA 3. National Science Foundation 4. NAVSEA 5. Army Corps of Engineers 6. Department of Education 7. Missile Defense Agency 8. NSA 9. US Army Research Office 10. Department of Homeland Security
Government and Nonprofit Supporters
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research • Air Force Research Labs • AMIE • Army Aviation and Missile Research
Development and Engineering Center
• Army Research Laboratory • Army Research Office • Battelle Memorial Institute
• California Institute for Telecommunications and IT
• CIA • Department of Defense • Department of Transportation • Golden Leaf Foundation • Maryland Department of Environment • Maryland Environmental Service • Maryland State Highway Administration • MIT Lincoln Lab
• National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
• National Institutes of Health • National Nuclear Security Administration • NAVAIR • Nuclear Regulatory Commission • Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Pacific Northwest National Lab • Que Options • Sandia National Laboratory
• The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• The Riverside Foundation • US Air Force • US Army • US Navy • US Patent & Trademark Office • USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) • VA Department of Transportation
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