THE DREAM MAKER
Dr. Eugene DeLoatch points at a map featuring projects marking Morgan State’s new era. In progress are a business school, a social sciences building, a school of community health, and a bridge over Hillen Road to connect the two sides of the campus.
to a field little known, as I see it, in the African-American community—a very critical field for the progress of this nation. I have no regrets taking the route of higher education and engineering as a public matter and doing it in an environment where I could impact the thought processes and the decisions to become an engineer in the historically Black colleges and universities in our country,” he said. “There are lots of other things I could have done or ended
up doing. I didn’t know what I was doing, and I didn’t know what it would turn out to be, but I don’t think I would have got this kind of impact,” he said.
MAINTAINING AMERICA’S LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY As an active member of the American Society for
Engineering Education, Dr. DeLoatch was elected to the position of vice president for public affairs (1998–2000), chaired the society’s Projects Board, and was a member of its Public Policy Committee. Additionally, he was a member of the Editorial Board of ASEE’s Journal of Engineering Education, was past chair of its College Industry Partnership Division, and was chair of that division’s Peer Review Committee. Dean DeLoatch is a past president of the American Society
of Engineering Education (ASEE). At the time of his election to the presidency of ASEE in 2002, he became the first African American to hold that position in its history. Among his many past assignments were his tenures on the National Research Council’s Board of Engineering Education and membership on the Technical Advisory Board of the Whirlpool Corporation.
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He serves as longstanding chairman of the Council of
Deans of Engineering of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. One of Dr. DeLoatch’s primary concerns is that the United States maintains its global leadership in engineering and technology, which is manifested in his dedication to seeking the best-prepared persons to commit to careers in engineering and science. Dr. DeLoatch has spent much of his professional life in addressing this issue. One day at lunch with USBE magazine publisher Tyrone
Taborn in 1984, he shared his concern to get more minorities and women interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and his idea for addressing the need. As a result, the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM Conference was launched in 1986, with Morgan State University as its sponsor. Since its inception in 1984, Morgan State University’s
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering has earned an outstanding reputation for excellence in the preparation of undergraduate and graduate students. “Morgan is among the nation’s top producers of black
engineers, and that is due largely because of one man: Eugene Deloatch,” said Dr. David Wilson, the 12th president of Morgan State University. “His record of success nationally in increasing diversity
in the field of engineering is a matter of great pride for him personally and for Morgan State University. We join with many hundreds of his former students whose lives he has touched over the years to express our gratitude for his dedication and service,” Dr. Wilson said. S
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