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JULY 13, 2023

Favour Nerrise was interested in engineering even before she knew what it was. Exposure to engineering doesn’t really exist for my family,” she said. Exposure to engineering doesn’t really exist for my family,” she said. Growing up, there wasn’t really anyone telling me that engineering was a path I could take.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Muhammad, a cybersecurity engineering major, is the youngest first year student in the schools history. The growing interest in Coppin, Jenkins says, has elevated its national recognition, including being listed as a top producer of HBCU students by Diverse. Infrastructure development has been another cornerstone of Jenkins tenure.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

These institutions are vital engines of opportunity, resilience and innovation," said UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L. UNCF will host its annual UNITE Summit July 20-24, 2025, in Atlanta, marking a historic first by offering five complimentary registrations to every historically Black Dr. Michael L.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The organization has already helped more than 600 Florida-based Dreamers graduate college, with many now working as nurses, teachers, engineers, and entrepreneurs within the state. With Florida facing shortages in healthcare, teaching, and STEM fields, the policy change could exacerbate existing gaps in critical sectors.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Vernon Dunn, director of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering at the National Academy of Engineers, first met Williams at one of the summer programs Williams ran at Xavier. Dunn says he speaks with Williams daily, seeking advice on managing people, navigating spaces, and how to best lead his program of young engineers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., You are capable of more than you can imagine.”

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share? Buil et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Whether it’s engineering, computing, business management or architecture, there are ways in which to build a DEI agenda in each of those particular disciplines.” There is a chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers on campus. The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This gap widens at an institution like Trine , where many students graduate with degrees in high-paying fields like healthcare and engineering, and many of our graduates earn above the national average in their field. In a recent Gallup poll, only 36% of adults expressed confidence in higher education. The most recent reports from the U.S.

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JULY 19, 2023

However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. candidate in material science and engineering at the University of Central Florida. He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. Fast forward to 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. Broadening Black males’ participation in science and engineering extends our country’s ability to solve our — and the world’s — grand challenges. Dr. Brian A.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 6, 2025

I thought, “Maybe I’ll be a software engineer!” ” “Maybe I’ll be a software engineer!” Choosing a major is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in college. For me, it wasn’t a straight pathit was a journey of trial, error, and self-discovery. And honestly?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 are immense.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The funding of two projects – one addressing postdoctoral researchers preparing for engineering/STEM education careers and one supporting youngsters - will build upon the community partnership between UH and Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, says university officials. Henderson, an assistant professor in the William A.

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MARCH 27, 2025

I also love how hes able to connect ideas from different areas in unexpected and nontrivial ways, says Cianciara, now a senior financial engineer at a firm on the East Coast. Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr. Eddie Red, delivered a welcoming message, expressing his aspiration to one day be featured on the wall, as he, like many of us present, is destined for a greater purpose.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Unlike the gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have catalyzed highly visible and widespread efforts to increase gender parity, the vast underrepresentation of women in economics has received relatively little attention. The field of economics has a problem with women. one that has earned the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brian A. Dr. Brian A.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Gaining a profound understanding of engineering within a global context is crucial for your long-term career success. AIFS Abroad offers a variety of engineering internship destinations, including these top 5 cities for engineering professionals. Ready to take your engineering career to the next level? Dublin, Ireland 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Michael Gutierrez “We believe that Hartnell College is an engine for economic vitality in our region and for students to move from poverty to prosperity,” says Michael Gutierrez, superintendent/president of Hartnell. “In Coupled with enhanced academic flexibility it has led to improved graduation rates.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; PhD. University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. I didnt have a car of course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Before he arrived at University of Maryland, Slaughter served in multiple STEM-related roles, including electrical engineer with General Dynamics Corporation; head of information systems technology at the U.S. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University; an M.S. Slaughter held a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

He returned this year to teach electrical engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Fuchs holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Duke University, Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But she also held a fascination with math, specifically with how math can be used to create tools and engineer solutions to problems. She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. Grad school is so difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Pathways for Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering, a joint effort from Cal State Fullerton’s Extension and International Programs and the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received $211,000 to spark community college students’, high schoolers’, and eventually, middle schoolers’ interest in the field of biomanufacturing.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Carver Professor of Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. She was invited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as a member of their joint roundtable on advancing change in undergraduate STEM education. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan; a B.S.

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AUGUST 11, 2024

million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

The 2023 class includes 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators elected by their academic peers and spanning 24 scientific disciplines. Dr. Aylin Yener , professor of electrical and computer engineering, computer science and engineering, and integrated systems engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Dr. Hadis Anahideh, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and another co-author of the study, said she and her team expected to encounter bias in algorithms. Dr. Hadis Anahideh, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and co-author of this study. “We

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program (Hawkins) and the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). The additional $1.3 billion in federal investments announced today will further build on the Administration’s commitments and on HBCUs’ demonstrated track record of delivering excellence. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Recent data projects that nearly four million additional people will be needed in 2030 for the science and engineering workforce to be representative of the U.S. population, Moore added. Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Low-key public colleges and minority-serving institutions, commonly known as MSIs, are serving as strong engines for economic mobility for the average American, according to new data by Third Way, a center-left think tank focused on improving learner outcomes. 66% California State University-Dominguez Hills $55,181 $38,446 0.72

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students. The school has an existing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S.T.E.M.)

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JANUARY 18, 2024

in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. It boasts its ranks among the leading producers of Black women who complete Ph.Ds.

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