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form relationships with Maryland’s public urban university engineering program or even hire its graduates. Dr. DeLoatch also acknowledged in July of 1990 that although corporate response had been underwhelming, there were “notable exceptions,” such as Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Westinghouse Electric Corp., and Martin Marietta Corp., which merged with Lockheed Corporation in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin Corporation.
DRIVERS AND MOTIVATION Since 1960 Dr. DeLoatch has helped stretch the boundaries
for engineering students. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics and
nce a bootstrapping startup, Morgan State University’s School of Engineering has grown into a top producer of engineers for the American workforce. That success is due in no small part to the
work of one man: Eugene M. DeLoatch. Dr. DeLoatch is founding dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell,
Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University, a position he assumed in July 1984. Clarence Mitchell (March 8, 1911– March 19, 1984) was a civil rights activist and chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. In the summer of 1990, when the Clarence M. Mitchell,
electrical engineering earned at Tougaloo College (1959) and Lafayette College (1959) respectively. His advanced degrees are a Master of Science in electrical engineering (1966) and a Ph.D. in bioengineering (1972), which were both received from the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn. He served as faculty at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, City College of New York, and the State University of New York. Prior to assuming the position of dean of Morgan State’s School of Engineering, he was a full professor and chairman of the department of electrical engineering (1975–1984) at Howard University. He left his position as chair and professor at Howard to become dean of engineering at Morgan State. “When I left school, less than one-half of one percent
of all the engineers in the country was African American,” Dr. DeLoatch told USBE Online in July 2016. “It was an area where we had little knowledge of, and participation in, when I graduated with my first engineering degree. It had nothing to do with capability but the way engineering grew.
“I had an opportunity to expose others to something of value,” Dr. DeLoatch said.
MAKING MORGAN ENGINEERS Morgan State’s School of Engineering
The engineering school graduates more than two-thirds of the state of Maryland’s black civil engineers, sixty percent of the African-American electrical engineers, 80 percent of the black telecom specialists, more than one-third of the black mathematicians, and all of Maryland’s industrial engineers.
Jr. School of Engineering building was still being built—with sixteen teaching laboratories and five research laboratories— Dr. DeLoatch told the Baltimore Sun about the other challenges facing his program’s future. Among them: Regional employers that were cool to
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admitted its first class in 1984, and the first graduates received degrees in 1988. Ten years later, a 40,000 sq. ft. building was added to the engineering school. The facility provided more classrooms, research laboratories, a student lounge, and a 2,200 sq. ft. library annex.
The School of Engineering now
has departments with programs in civil engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial and systems engineering, and transportation and urban infrastructure studies. The school also offers graduate programs that confer the Master of Engineering degree, Doctor of Engineering degree, and Master of Transportation degree. “I can’t think of a better thing I
could have done from the time I started as an instructor in engineering at Howard University,” Dr. DeLoatch said. “It couldn’t have been a better thing to do because it did start my professional career,” he said. “It was about wanting to expose as many young people
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