TS Volume 42 Number 1 PROFILES IN INNOVATION
People and Events .......................... 6 Professionals on the Move, Upcoming STEM Eents
One on One ...................................10 Passing the BEYA Torch: Dr. Eugene Deloatch, 2017 Black Engineer of the Year
EDUCATION
Education ..................................... 12 Study Smart, Study Less: Improving Your Study Skills
First Steps ....................................14 Steven Brown and the DIG Program
BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESS
Corporate Life ...............................16 BEYA Seminar Recap: The Path to Being the Best Leader
Career Voices ................................18 BEYA Winners on Career Achievement
Leading Voices NEW!
Mike Spencer ................................76 The End of Moore’s Law
Gary Harris ...................................77 The Raspberry Pi Primer
Jem Pagan ....................................79 Smart Cities: The Next Frontier
CAREER OUTLOOK
Career Outlook .............................81 Auto Industry Overview
Jobs in the Auto Industry
Tyrone D. Taborn Publisher and Editorial Director
www.blackengineer.com USBE&IT | CONFERENCE ISSUE 2018 3
PUBLISHER’S PAGE
Building for those coming behind us: Promoting STEM at BEYA When Arthur J. Bond, Alabama A&M’s
pioneering engineering dean, received an award in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to the recruitment of minority engineering students nationally, he stressed the importance of building for those coming along behind us. Keynoting the fi nal event of the 21st annual BEYA Conference, Rod
Adkins, the 2007 BEYA winner, remarked that collaboration had been a tangible outcome of the event. Adkins spoke on digital inclusion, Black professionals, global competition, and the importance of promoting STEM achievement as a national interest. Following on from the Army Corps of Engineers workshop at the 23rd BEYA STEM Conference, Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp told USBE Online that over 200 resumes were collected by Corps recruiters at the Career Fair. Twenty-eight job off ers were made. He was proud to announce the Corps had 18 new employees. Although engineering and computer science grads continue to top hiring lists, internship experience has been ranked as one of the most important job candidate characteristics. More and more employers are looking past GPA to the jobs graduates have held in the past. It is easy to see only the superfi cial achievements of America’s Black colleges and universities—the number of graduates, various courses of study—and miss the signifi cant contributions these institutions and their graduates make. HBCUs help underserved families cross the “digital divide.” HBCUs not only graduate 33 percent of all Black engineers but their graduates are at the forefront of news stories on infrastructure, national security, disaster relief, technical assistance, and research. As a new college graduate in 1959, when job off ers weren’t coming in as quickly as she’d expected, Nathelyne Archie Kennedy, the fi rst female engineering graduate from Prairie View A&M University and the fi rst African- American female professional engineer registered by the state of Texas, moved to Chicago, where she landed her fi rst job. Kennedy risked majoring in engineering in 1950s Texas, when it was a safe bet to teach. She had six words to describe her 50-year career: “Don’t be afraid to venture out.” As a plant manager at the Lansing, MI, Consolidated Operations and Arlington Assembly in Texas in the early 2000s, Alicia Boler Davis, the 2018 Black Engineer of the Year, was the fi rst African-American woman to be a plant manager at a GM vehicle manufacturing plant. Since she joined the company, Boler Davis has led connected customer activities, infotainment, OnStar, and GM’s Urban Active personal mobility initiatives. Under her leadership, GM improved vehicle quality and redefi ned customer care. Currently, Boler Davis is Executive Vice President, General Motors Global Manufacturing. She is also passionate about building programs for those coming behind us, digital inclusion, global competition, high-tech careers, and the role of the Black professional in promoting student achievement at BEYA as a national interest. “We are being fairly successful now,” Bond said in 2005, “but there is still work to be done.”
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