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Ensuring U.S. Competitiveness in a Flat World

Resilience

2011 Annual Report

A Message from the Chair

This has been a fantastic year for NACME. The organization has expanded on its accomplishments from previous years in

exciting ways. This year NACME held the very successful National Symposium, released the highly anticipated 2011 NACME Data Book, launched a series of one-page research documents, and continued expanding on its work in the policy arena, which has led to new relationships with key individuals on Capitol Hill and within the Executive Branch. At the very core, as always, is NACME’s continued commitment to helping produce the talented students who will undoubtedly change the face of American innovation.

For nearly four decades NACME has been instrumental in helping provide historically underrepresented minority (URM) students with the opportunities to enter the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields of study and careers. This work, however, would not be possible without the dedication of the companies represented on the Board of Directors. This year, we were fortunate to have seen the range of support grow. NACME welcomed three new compa-nies to the Board of Directors, and increased the number of companies supporting NACME’s efforts through the Corporate Council. I remain hopeful that this pattern will only continue as new initiatives are rolled out over the next year. These initiatives include a linkage strategy designed to help underrepre-sented minority students move from the Academy of Engineering (AOE) program through STEM study, and ultimately into the STEM workforce. Although still in its infancy, this initiative has the potential to dramatically increase the number of high-caliber students in the talent pipeline.

Another critical area of growth for NACME has been in the policy arena. That is, its work in becoming an advocate for improved STEM

education, and in the effort to influence STEM education-related legislation. Earlier this year, NACME was recognized in a White House press release as one of the crucial organiza-tions that is working to reshape the engineering workforce of tomorrow. NACME’s increased presence on the Hill, has also led to the formation of great working relationships between NACME’s leadership and key Congressional members, as well as agency representatives.

Now that my tenure as the Chair of the NACME Board of Directors is coming to a close, I wish my fellow Board member and friend, Art Burson of Merck & Company, Inc., the very best of luck in guiding this fantastic organization. I am certain he will be instrumen-tal in bringing NACME to the next level. It has been an honor to serve as Chair and work with the outstanding staff, Board and member companies in furthering our vision, an engineering workforce that looks like America, which is of vital importance to our nation’s competitiveness.

NACME is poised to continue building on its accomplishments from this past year. Our reach and influence, and most importantly, the students it will help bring through the educational pathway and into the STEM fields—and potentially our companies—will depend entirely on the support it receives from its corporate supporters. This is why I hope we can count on your investment during this year as we have in the past.

Sincerely,

Eileen M. CampbellChair, NACME, Inc.Vice President, Public Policy Marathon Oil Company

Shaping a ST M Workforce That Looks like America

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A Message from the President and Chief Executive Officer

In keeping with our tradition of one-word themes for our annual reports, this year’s theme is, “Resilience.” We selected this

theme because of its relevance to our organization as a whole, but, most especially, to our students’ impact on the nation’s efforts to remain resilient in the flat world in the area of STEM education, workforce development, and innovation.

Too many leaders and policymakers have ignored the data on participation of underrep-resented minorities in STEM fields and failed to recognize, or, perhaps, to admit that diversity drives innovation and that its absence imperils our designs, our products, and, most of all, our creativity—all components of competitiveness. Given that the number of college-age minority students will grow dramatically over the next decade, and that significant gaps in college participation and success exist between them and their nonminority peers, we must find ways to facilitate, rather than deter, their entry into and graduation from STEM disciplines.

NACME’s vision of An Engineering Work-force that Looks like America has driven accomplishment on our plan, Connectivity 2015, in this past year. From the release of

the Community College Transfer Study at a briefing on Capitol Hill which attracted Congressional and Agency representatives; to the launch of a popular new series of Research and Policy Briefs that emphasize a data-based look at diversity in STEM education and the workforce; to planning yet another successful NACME National Symposium in St. Paul, Minnesota with sponsorship from our venerable NACME Board Company, 3M; to the addition of new global technology companies on the NACME Board of Directors and NACME Corporate Council; we at NACME have greatly increased our influence, reinforced the importance of what we do, and proven—yet again—that our scholars have the capability to change the world.

In order to illustrate this point, we feature four outstanding students from all points along the NACME Continuum in this Annual Report. That is, a high school student in our Academy of Engineering (AOE) initiative, a student at one of our NACME Partner Community Colleges, an undergraduate engineering student at one of our NACME Partner Universities, and a former Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program student who is now in the engineering workforce at a NACME Board Company.

I continue to be encouraged by the unwavering support we have received from the companies and organizations on the NACME Board of Directors and Corporate Council. At a time when many in the corporate sector are cutting back on their philanthropic pursuits, our corporate partners have far exceeded expectations. In keeping with the upward trajectory outlined in Connectivity 2015, we are now well on the way to achieving the goal of 50 NACME Board Companies. This year we proudly welcomed ITT Information Systems, Johnson Controls, Inc., and Procter & Gamble Company to the NACME Family.

This year also marks the last year for Eileen M. Campbell’s term as Chair of the NACME Board of Directors. I am notably proud of

the accomplishments of her tenure as Board Chair, and of the support and guidance that she has provided to me in the early stages of my leadership of this venerable organization. Eileen helped pave the way for NACME’s entry into the national STEM policy arena, and contributed both intellectual capital and resources in the effort to make NACME top-of-mind and at the table where discus-sions and decisions about diversity with equity in STEM education and the workforce are made. Eileen’s legacy in the policy arena and in the resilience of our organization is assured.

The leadership of the NACME Board of Directors is now in the very capable hands of Arthur P. Burson, Vice President, Global Engineering Servicers, at Merck & Company, Inc. Art is a distinguished engineer and corporate leader whose passion for the NACME vision, mission and strategy is palpable. He is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, one of NACME’s 50 Partner Universities, and a leader in producing successful African American engineers. I have worked closely with Art since I joined NACME in 2007. I am convinced that his leadership will help to propel NACME to the next level of accomplishment.

As always, I thank you for your dedication to resolving what we at NACME have dubbed The “New” American Dilemma: the relative absence of African Americans, American Indians, and Latinos in STEM study and careers, and the requirement to reverse this situation to better compete globally. We are excited about the opportunities for collabora-tion with you in this journey.

Cordially,

Irving Pressley McPhail, Ed.D.President and Chief Executive Officer NACME, Inc.

Contents2 The NACME Strategy

4 Educational Programs

8 Research, Evaluation, and Policy

10 Institutional Advancement

12 Financial Statements

14 Donors and Partners

16 Board, Officers, and Staff

NACME’s foremost priority is helping to increase the representation of successful

African American, American Indian, and Latino women and men in engineering

education and careers. NACME’s ambitious strategic plan, Connectivity 2015,

is organized around Scholarships and University Relations, Pre-Engineering

Programs, Research and Program Evaluation, and Policy. Our scholarship strategy

continues to be the paramount pillar for the organization, and we are proud to be

the largest private provider of scholarships in engineering for underrepresented

minority students. Since its founding in 1974, NACME has provided more than

$124 million in aid to 24,000 students at 160 colleges and universities. In this

Annual Report we highlight four resilient members of the NACME Continuum:

Kirsten Redmon, Jennifer Mosquera, Tariq Walker, and Dr. Dwight Hunter.

Each of these talented individuals will help to ensure that the United States maintains

and enhances its global preeminence in STEM.

The NACME Strategy

2 2011 NACME Annual Report

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KIRSTEN REDMONAcademy of engineering (AOe)

H igh school student Kirsten Redmon, 17, has no idea where

her passion for engineering came from, she just remembers as a young girl always being curious about what made certain mechanical objects tick. “When I was in the fifth grade, I took apart my alarm clock, but I couldn’t put it back together until a few years ago and it still works,” says Kirsten.

An honor roll student today, Kirsten’s early academic record showed a lackluster interest in school and failing grades, the result of an unstable home life according to Kirsten. “My mother was using drugs and we were evicted from our home. But I moved in with my grandmother when I was eight years old and she

instilled in me the importance of getting a good education and making good grades. As a result, I was able to pick up my grades from F’s and D’s to straight A’s and I’ve been on the honor roll ever since,” she says.

Kirsten’s grandmother wasn’t the only important influence in her academic and career trajectory. Kirsten also credits an Academy of Engineering launched magnet program at Sam Houston High School in San Antonio, Texas, and her freshman teacher, Tyler Nichols, with putting her on a career path in systems engineering. “I didn’t want to be in the engineering class when I was a freshman, but Mr. Nichols showed me what engineering

entailed and I’ve stayed with the curriculum over the last four years.”

Kirsten’s academic record is so stellar she was nominated by NACME and selected to participate in the Adventures of The Mind program, a mentoring summit for top students nationwide, where she, along with 150 other high school students, got to meet more than 50 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and MacArthur Fellows at the University of Montana at Missoula. “It meant so much to me to be chosen out of thousands of students to attend the program. I got to meet Pulitzer Prize winners, scientists and astronauts, as well as students from around the country and interact with students from the

University of Montana. It was a great opportunity for me,” says Kirsten.

Now, Kirsten is looking toward the future, where she hopes to combine two of her loves, engineering and the military. She’s applied to the United States Military Academy at West Point to major in systems engineering, and eventually wants to work on developing airplane electronics. But Kirsten also sees an education in engineering as a means of providing her with opportuni-ties in a range of areas.

“I really want to make a difference in people’s lives. By being an engineer, I’m hoping to help solve a lot of the world’s problems, including ways to prevent climate change and economic disasters,” says Kirsten.


NACME Leverages Our PartnershipsMore than 150 participants joined in a three day meeting held in Houston, Texas. The group sought to validate and refine an integration model, establish further structure and to gather multiple perspectives on the best path forward. Present at the meeting were:

n Middle and high school teachers, principals, parents, guidance counselors and students

n Community college/university administrators, faculty and students

n Mentors to the Academy of Engineering (AOE) high school students

n Corporate executives

n Members of the NACME Board of Directors

n Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics representatives from various government agencies, e.g. Department of Energy

The meeting also focused on defining the:n Current relationships between NACME’s

pre-college partners and partner universities, as well as assessing the efficacy of such relationships, both at the K-12 and post-secondary levels;

n Initiatives that have led to higher graduation and retention rates at NACME’s partner high schools and universities; and

n Outreach available to high schools, existing pre-college programs, and finally, the impact of such programs on student success.

Recommendations arising from the meeting included:n Inviting participation from both pre-college

and university partners to develop and implement an integration model;

n Piloting the model among the pre-engineering AOEs and university partners located in the New York/New Jersey region and Texas; and

n Replicating the pilot model throughout the country.

Educational Programs

NACME STEM Integration ModelAs a result of the discussions among our key stakeholders, we have developed the NACME STEM Integration Model with the goal of facilitating a comprehensive pathway of underrepresented minorities to engineering careers beginning in middle school. Our objectives include the following:

n To develop regional partnerships of institutions along the NACME Continuum

n To ensure that partners are invested in the NACME Brand

n To evaluate each program based on expectations outlined in the Memorandums of Understanding

n To increase operational efficiency and effectiveness of linkage programs

n To ensure evaluation is integrated across all linkage programs

n To target funding opportunities for the integration model

Over the next year, we will develop a pilot project focused on a year of planning to launch NACME’s first regional STEM Integration Model.

Academy of EngineeringThe Academy of Engineering (AOE) was designed to answer an acute need for well-trained engineers by educating high school students in STEM, as well as preparing them for post-secondary engineering colleges and careers. By 2013, 110 AOEs are expected to open, sustaining more than 30,000 students once fully enrolled. NACME’s commitments to the AOEs include providing engineering

awareness materials, student scholarships, teacher grants, and invaluable real-world engineering resources through the involvement of our board companies and their representa-tives. Board company representatives currently serve 70 percent of the local AOE advisory boards. Lastly, after a year of careful planning, NACME launched the first steps of its new linkage strategy, to connect the AOEs with our partner universities.

Scholarships and University RelationsOver the past year, NACME has led the effort to connect key constituents along the middle school to workforce-entry continuum, through the implementation of the NACME STEM Integration Model, in support of maximizing the transformative power among our partners to create a technologically educated and productive U.S. workforce. The goal was to introduce, lay the early groundwork, and more formally connect NACME pre-college initiatives with university partner programs and the NACME corporate community.

NACME Pre-Engineering ProgramsOver the past year, NACME’s Pre-Engineering Program department has taken on a new focus which will better align its goals with those of the NACME University Programs. Despite this new direction, we at NACME remain committed to expanding our efforts across urban districts, and to recognizing outstanding scholars and educators who value the importance of a STEM education.

Minority Graduate ProgramsNACME was awarded a renewal grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue its administration of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program for an additional three years.

The Sloan Program added 114 new Ph.D. scholars. The selected students are completing doctoral degrees in one of the 53 participating departments at universities across the United States. The cumulative total of Sloan Scholars is over 2,200. The program has produced over 730 Ph.D.’s in STEM disciplines.

Through the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP), 25 new Masters and Ph.D. students were admitted during the 2010-2011 year. The SIGP program has graduated 10 Ph.D.’s and 38 Masters degrees.

Two of the Sloan-campus Program Directors were honored this year for their contributions to improving access for underserved students in the STEM disciplines. Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez from Arizona State University was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. Dr. Richard Tapia from Rice University was awarded the National Medal of Science from President Obama.

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Jennifer Mosquera, 24, left her native country of Ecuador when

she was 18 to move to Belleville, New Jersey, to live with her father and continue her education. A naturally good student in math and science in high school, Jennifer didn’t envision a career in engineering until she started taking mathematics classes at Essex County Community College in Newark, New Jersey, where she received an associate’s degree in engineering and mathematics in 2009. Now, she says, “I don’t see myself in any career other than engineering.”

In 2011, Jennifer graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a NACME Partner Institution, with a bachelor’s degree in mechani-cal engineering and a grade point

average of 4.0. In the fall of that year, Jennifer was among several students invited to speak at a briefing NACME held on Capitol Hill to present its latest research on community college transfers. The data showed that underrepresented minority students who transferred to NACME Partner Universities performed extremely well in terms of grade point average and retention.

Jennifer plans to enter a master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at NJIT in the fall of 2012. In the meantime, she’s getting first-hand experience in mechanical engineering working for Ecosystem, a Manhattan-based energy services company, overseeing the conversion of a network of steam boilers to hot

water in a building in Brooklyn, New York, which will conserve energy and reduce costs.

In addition to honing her mechanical engineering skills, Jennifer wants to become proficient in mechanical drafting services, including Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), a schematic illustration of the functional relation-ship of piping, instrumentation and system equipment components. “My goal is to fully understand the design part in engineering because having a degree in mechanical engineering doesn’t mean that you understand basic digital control concepts and I want to go deeper into that part of engineering,” says Jennifer.

community college

JENNIFER MOSqUERA


NACME STEM Urban InitiativeIn 2011, NACME expanded the NACME STEM Urban Initiative to California through the support from the Chevron Corporation. The NACME STEM Urban Initiative is a partnership between NACME and Project Lead The Way (PLTW). This partnership combines PLTW’s curriculum with resources (engineering awareness materials, teacher grants and student scholarships) provided by NACME, in order to create the ultimate support system for students. The pilot site was launched in September 2009 in the Milwaukee Public Schools system with the goal of providing support to students, as well as their parents and teachers, in select urban areas.

Over the last two years, NACME has reached more than 6,000 underrepresented minority middle and high school students.

Pre-Engineering Student ScholarshipsThe NACME Pre-Engineering Student Scholarship recognizes the nation’s highest achieving African-American, Latino and American-Indian high school seniors who have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership skills, and a commitment to science and engineering as a career goal. Eighty-nine high school seniors—twice as many as the previous year—have been selected as 2011-2012 NACME Pre-Engineering Scholars, and will receive a $1,500 award toward the cost of their undergraduate tuition. This year’s batch of Pre-Engineering Scholars will be pursuing studies at prominent universities, including Georgia Institute of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, (for a complete listing of the NACME Pre-Engineering Students please visit www.nacmebacksme.org.)

STEM Innovation GrantThe NACME STEM Innovation Grant provides teachers with funding for projects that increase student awareness of the exciting opportunities in engineering fields—transforming classroom theory into real-world applications. During the 2010-2011 academic year, NACME awarded more than $65,000 to teachers across the country to fund a range of innovative, hands-on projects. More than 7,000 students took part in these projects that included designing, building, and programming robots to compete in FIRST Robotics; using thermal energy; reverse engineering applications; investigating and exploring automotive design, to name a few, (for a complete listing of the STEM Innovation Grants and project photos, please visit www.nacmebacksme.org.)

Community CollegeNACME Pipeline Partnership for the Advancement of Engineering Education (PPAEE)Through the Pipeline Partnership, NACME has facilitated cooperation between public school districts and local community colleges to better prepare underrepresented minority students to succeed in engineering disciplines. The partnerships established in this pilot program enable high school juniors and seniors to take advanced mathematics, science, as well as introductory engineering courses at local community college campuses. NACME provides funding that covers tuition, books and tutoring costs. On average, students gain 11 community college credits while dually enrolled at their high school and community college. During the 2010-2011 school year, the number of students participating in the program grew by almost 110 percent from the previous year. The community colleges participating are: Prince George’s Community College, MD; Bunker Hill Community College, MA; Howard Community College, MD; Contra Costa Community College, Calif.; and and City College of San Francisco, Calif.

Community College Transfer ScholarshipsThrough the NACME Scholars Block Grant Program our partner universities provided scholarship support to 104 students who transferred from community colleges. These students received a total of $229,070 in scholarship funding, which will enable them to complete their bachelor’s degree in engineering. Thirty-one scholars completed their BS degree in engineering at the completion of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Beyond the DreamSpringfield Technical Community College remains the beta site for the Beyond the Dream Program. Funding from the Lumina Foundation for Education in 2009 assisted with developing a comprehensive plan for increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who begin their community college careers in developmental mathematics and later successfully complete degrees in engineering. Springfield Technical Community College was one of 37 Achieving the Dream (AtD) Commu-nity Colleges that participated in a roundtable that sought to develop curriculum resources for all levels of developmental mathematics courses that engage students in learning and raise academic achievement through project-based learning (PBL). NACME’s Research Brief, Vol. 1 No. 5, highlighted the program.

Community College Transfers – Block Grant

Community College Transfer Students31 Graduates 2010-2011

n Gender 71% Male 29% Female

n Ethnicity 65% Latino 29% African American 3% American Indian 3% Other

n Academic Discipline 29% Mechanical Engineering 20% Electrical Engineering 19% Biomedical Engineering 13% Civil/Environmental Engineering 19% Other Engineering

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NACME Scholars

NACME’s University Partners

Latino

53%

41%

African American

2%

American Indian

4%

Other

Male

67%

33%

Female

NACME Scholars by Ethnicity 2010-2011 NACME Scholars by Gender 2010-2011

23%

17%

16%

14%

10%

7%

5%

5%

3%

Mechanical Engineering

Other Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Civil/Environmental Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Biomedical/Bio-Engineering

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

NACME Scholars by Academic Discipline

MidwestIllinois Institute of TechnologyKansas State UniversityKettering UniversityMilwaukee School of EngineeringMissouri University of Science and TechnologyPurdue UniversityRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyUniversity of AkronUniversity of Illinois-UrbanaUniversity of Missouri, ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri, Kansas CityUniversity of Oklahoma

NortheastBucknell UniversityCornell UniversityDrexel UniversityFairfield UniversityNew Jersey Institute of TechnologyPolytechnic Institute of NYURochester Institute of TechnologyRutgers, The State University of New JerseyStevens Institute of TechnologySyracuse UniversityThe City College of New YorkUniversity of BridgeportUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County

SoutheastFlorida A&M UniversityFlorida International UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyLouisiana State UniversityNorth Carolina A&T State UniversityPolytechnic University of Puerto RicoTennessee Technological UniversityTuskegee UniversityUniversity of ArkansasUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of Kentucky Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityWest Virginia University

SouthwestNorthern Arizona UniversityPrairie View A&M UniversityUniversity of HoustonUniversity of Texas, El PasoUniversity of Texas, San Antonio

WestCalifornia State University, Los AngelesCalifornia State University, SacramentoUniversity of AlaskaUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Washington

In addition to its Board of Directors, NACME is guided and supported by 50 of the nation’s top educational institutions:

NortheastWest

Southwest

Midwest

Southeast

Computer Science/Information Systems


NACME Research BriefsNACME is the most authoritative source of data and information on the participation of historically underrepresented minorities (African American, Latino, and American Indian) in engineering education and careers. This year, through the support of the Research and Policy Advisory Council (RPAC), NACME published Volume 1 of a set of seven Research Briefs. The briefs focused on the following topics:

No. 1 Community College Transfers and Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Programs

No. 2 Fact Sheet: Engineering Degrees in the United States

No. 3 Fact Sheet: U.S. Engineering Workforce

No. 4 African Americans in Engineering

No. 5 Beyond the Dream: From Developmental Mathematics to Engineering Careers

No. 6 Engineering Salaries

No. 7 Latinos in Engineering

Community College Transfer StudyThe Community College Transfer Study was released at a briefing on Sept. 29, 2010 on Capitol Hill. The briefing was sponsored by the Motorola Foundation and attended by high-level representatives from like-minded organizations, federal agencies, and members of Congress, in addition to NACME’s Board of Directors. Findings from the study show that among NACME Scholars, GPAs were higher for transfer students than for students who followed a traditional pathway into four-year engineering programs. Stronger articulation agreements between two-year and four-year institutions would assist students in successful transfer between community colleges and four-year institutions. Articulation agreements allow community college students to learn about the ways to attain a four-year degree. Students would also learn about which programs, courses and credits are transferable while at their community college. This would assist transfer students in obtaining a four-year degree without a significant increase to time-to-degree.

The Research and Policy Advisory CouncilThe Research and Policy Advisory Council (RPAC) was formed in 2006. Since then, Dr. Etta Ruth Hollins, Kauffman Endowed Chair for Urban Teacher Education, accepted the invitation to join RPAC in June 2011. She joins the ranks of experts from academia, professional societies, and other non-profit organizations. RPAC assists NACME in developing the organization’s research and policy agenda by recommending research projects and initiatives that could influence national policy to increase historically underrepresented minority participa-tion in engineering fields of study and careers. NACME greatly appreciates the individual and collective efforts of the members of RPAC.

Program Logic ModelsEducational assessment and decision-making are critical to NACME’s research and program evaluation agenda. Logic models were developed for each program along the NACME continuum using methodologies that build upon a stable foundation of effective practices. The program logic models support the on-going effort to develop the NACME STEM Integration Model, a linkage strategy for increasing the production of underrepresented minority engineers.

Dr. Lisa M. FrehillDirector, Research Evaluation and PolicyNACME, Inc.

Dr. Shaun HarperAssistant ProfessorDirector, Center for the Study of Race and Equity in EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania

Dr. Linda Serra HagedornAssociate Dean, Undergraduate Programs; Diversity, Equity and Community; and Student ServicesCollege of Human SciencesProfessor, Educational Leadership and Policy StudiesIowa State University

Dr. Etta Ruth HollinsKauffman Endowed Chair for Urban Teacher Education University of Missouri, Kansas City

Dr. Gary S. MayDean, College of EngineeringProfessor, School of Electrical & Computer EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Jose MorenoAssistant ProfessorLatino Education and Policy StudiesCalifornia State University, Long Beach

Dr. Watson Scott SwailPresidentEducational Policy Institute

Dr. Bevlee A. WatfordAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director, Center for the Enhancement of Engineering DiversityVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The Annual Graduating Survey ReportFor the 2010 NACME Graduating Scholar Survey, NACME collected data on the enrollment, retention, and degree completion rates of underrepresented minorities at our 50 Partner Universities. The findings include:

n The NACME Scholarship was the most important funding source cited by students: 88 percent of students indicated that the NACME Scholarship was a “very important” funding source for their undergraduate education among 14 possible sources that were rated.

n “Professional interests” were a key factor in students’ post-graduation plans: 58 percent of males and 71 percent of females said this factor “greatly influenced” their plans.

n “Compensation package” was also critical to making plans: 43 percent of females and 44 percent of males said this factor “greatly influenced” their plans.

Research, Evaluation, and Policy

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Ever since Tariq Walker, 21, was a young child he had a fascination

for how things worked. When he was in the eighth grade, unhappy with the sound on his family’s electric piano, he decided to take it apart to figure out the problem. “I thought the piano wasn’t loud enough, so I hooked it up to old speakers to hear the sound better and then I put it back together,” says Tariq. But it wasn’t until a field trip to Six Flags amusement park during his senior year in high school that engineering began to loom large as a career choice.

“My physics teacher was an engineer and she took us to Six Flags to measure the acceleration and velocity of the various roller coasters in the park. After collecting the information, we came back to school

and analyzed the data. That experience of learning about the forces that make a roller coaster work made me determined to pursue a career in engineering,” he says.

To achieve his goal, Tariq left his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and enrolled in North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro to major in architectural engineering with a concentration in structures. But the hefty $20,000-a-year tuition soon threatened to derail his plans. “I came to school with a lot of student loans and my mother had so many other financial obligations she said she couldn’t afford to send me here, so I thought I was going to have to leave after my freshman year.”

Tariq, however, qualified for a NACME Scholarship through the

university’s NACME Blcok Grant Program. The scholarship, says Tariq, was instrumental in allowing him to stay in school. “The funding from NACME enabled me to continue school without putting such a financial burden on my mother,” says Tariq. It also provided him with the chance to accomplish another one of his goals: to study and work abroad. In his junior year, Tariq studied at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, learning German to prepare him for a summer internship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Wiesbaden, Germany, and taking classes in environmental economics and project management, a subject Tariq plans to make his career.

“I studied how project manage-ment programs are different in China, Europe and the U.S. Overseeing

an engineering project from the designing and planning stages to budgeting and scheduling is really interesting to me,” says Tariq. “When you’re planning the design of a construction project, you have to think about the whole process, taking into account how long it will take to complete and how much money it’s going to cost to ensure your clients get the best investment.”

Tariq who served as a NACME Scholar Ambassador for two years, was nominated by NACME for the National Engineers Week Foundation’s “New Faces of Engineering College Edition.” He was officially named a winner later in the year.

After graduation from college, Tariq plans on pursuing a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in civil engineering.

TARIq WALKERnAcMe scholar


Overall, in fiscal year 2011, NACME achieved an impressive record of growth. This achieve-ment reflected a strategic focus on expanding a national network of institutional and individual friends to enhance our core support and assure stability for an integrated strategy of engineering education. During this period, NACME raised approximately $7.4 million in cash and in-kind support, despite a challenging economy.

NACME Board of DirectorsNACME is governed by a preeminent board of directors—composed largely of executives from Fortune 500 companies—that provides guidance and financial support to achieve our shared goal of assuring inclusion and opportu-nity in engineering education. In the past year, a concerted effort to replenish and augment our distinguished roster of corporate board supporters resulted in the addition of the following companies: ITT Information Systems, Johnson Controls, Inc., and Procter & Gamble Company. We are grateful for the significant financial support from our board companies, many of whom have supported NACME since its founding in 1974. NACME will work to continue to build on this important source of support in the years ahead.

NACME Corporate CouncilSince its founding in 2010, the NACME Corporate Council has demonstrated an impressive level of support. New participants in 2011 included the following: Americas Styrenics, Emerson, EOG Resources, Inc., General Motors Foundation, Georgia-Pacific, Medtronic Foundation, Molex, and Symantec. Participants benefitted from a series of quarterly teleconferences featuring presenta-tions by NACME board companies including Raytheon, Merck, and IBM on topics ranging from best practices in utilizing the NACME Online Resume Directory as a recruiting tool, to new frontiers in information technology.

NACME is fortunate to have a growing number of individuals who share its vision of producing a diverse engineering workforce. Yet while progress has been made, much more remains to be done. An even larger community of supporters is needed to ensure that underrep-resented minority students have the resources necessary to pursue engineering pathways, fill our nation’s high-tech workforce, and help assure American global competitiveness.

Institutional Advancement

Future Engineers

1. Academy of Engineering (AOE) students from South Carolina’s Gateway Academy. 2. AOE students getting hands-on laboratory experience. 3. AOE students working on a project as a team. 4. AOE Students in the classroom. 5. Young students at NACME’s USA Science & Engineering Festival booth in Washington D.C. 6. AOE students in the classroom.

At a time when American global preeminence depends more than ever on the ability to attract and prepare a diverse, highly-trained cadre of young professionals to participate in our nation’s high-tech workforce, NACME is committed to inspiring engagement, achievement, and opportunity on the STEM pathway. Our work would not be possible without the generous support of a national network of corporate, foundation, and individual supporters, in addition to our university partners, who share a commitment to increasing minority participation in engineering education.

NACME’s alumni network has been expanding rapidly, and we’re hoping to keep the pace this year. We strongly encourage all alumni to keep in touch with us via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Growing up in his native Jamaica, Dwight Hunter and his school-

mates loved to quiz each other on the scientific principles involved in everyday occurrences, such as why when a match is lit the flame goes up (because hot air rises). Naturally good in math and science, these exercises with his childhood friends instilled a lifelong sense of curiosity about scientific problem solving and led him to his current career as a quality and reliability engineer at Intel Corporation, a company represented on the NACME Board of Directors. But reaching his goal, says Dwight, took years of hard work and perseverance.

Believing that studying in the U.S. would present him with greater educational and career opportunities than he could find in Jamaica, Dwight worked as a store clerk and then as a

sales representative after graduating from high school to save enough money to move to the U.S. and pursue his dream of becoming a physicist. But after being accepted into the physics program at Jacksonville University in Florida, Dwight realized that the $21,000-a-year tuition fee was beyond his reach and decided to keep working to save enough money to eventually make the move. His opportunity came the following year when he heard that the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was looking to increase its Jamaican student population. Although he was accepted into the university, once again money posed a nearly insur- mountable obstacle.

“That was a really tough time because I came to the U.S. with just enough money for the first semester and even though I qualified academi-

cally for a scholarship, I wasn’t eligible for one because of my status as an international student,” says Dwight. “But where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

To stay in school, Dwight worked the night shift at a group home for mentally ill patients, finally earning his bachelor’s degree in physics in 2002. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in materials science from Norfolk State University in Virginia. It was during that time that Dwight developed a passion for scientific research in the applied sciences and published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2006, he matriculated in the materials science Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland on a full scholarship. With the help of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Program

scholarship, Dwight completed his Ph.D. in materials science in 2011.

Married with two young children, Julian, 9, and Mckenzee, 7, all the years of struggle are finally paying off for Dwight, now 35. His Ph.D. work on the discovery of a new magnetic-field-sensitive alloy for micromechanical device applications was recently published in Nature Communications and he’s on track to reach his career goal of becoming a principal engineer at Intel Corporation.

“As difficult as it was during my undergraduate years, I knew, even back in high school, that getting a good education was going to be my way out of poverty. I wanted to be in a profession in which I could be well paid. It’s great to be doing work I love and getting paid for it,” says Dwight.

DWIGHT HUNTERAlfred P. sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Program


Statement of Financial PositionFor the year ended August 31, 2011 (With comparative totals for 2010) NACME, Inc. (not-for-profit corporation)

Total of All Funds

2011 2010

Assets:Cash and cash equivalents $ 6,032,951 $ 3,467,389

Short-term investments 6,654,103 5,945,496

Pledges receivable 110,338 436,184

Long-term investments 899,516 905,115

Leasehold improvements, office furniture and equipment 157,032 193,637

Security deposit 58,038 48,038

Restricted cash 42,266 42,215

TOTAL ASSETS $ 13,954,244 $ 11,038,074

Liabilities and Net Assets:LIABILITIES:

Sloan Foundation - program fund advance $ 3,710,926 $ 1,584,981

Accounts payable and accrued expenses 16,604 36,328

Tenant deposits 42,266 42,215

Deferrals 708,116 523,467

Total Liabilities $ 4,477,912 $ 2,186,991

NET ASSETS:

Unrestricted 7,137,506 5,869,532

Temporarily restricted 1,991,000 2,638,126

Permanently restricted 347,826 343,425

Total Net Assets $ 9,476,332 $ 8,851,083

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 13,954,244 $ 11,038,074

Management’s Statement of Financial ResponsibilityThe management takes full responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the NACME financial statements presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Our corporate governance policies and practices include the following:• A majority of our Board is comprised of independent directors.• Only independent directors are members of the Executive, Governance,

Policy, Development, and Finance Committees.• The Executive, Governance, Policy, Development, and Finance Commit-

tees make appropriate use of charters that clearly detail each Committee’s responsibilities.

• The Finance Committee retains the independent auditor and regularly reviews the financial condition of the company. The independent auditor has free access to the Finance Committee.

We are committed to providing financial information that is transparent, timely, complete, relevant, and accurate.

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail President and CEO

Michael T. PanVice President, Finance/Administration, and Chief Financial Officer.

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Statement of ActivitiesFor the year ended August 31, 2011 (With comparative totals for 2010) NACME, Inc. (not-for-profit corporation)

Total of All Funds

2011 2010

Public Support and Revenue:Contributions $ 3,819,646 $ 3,546,600

Contributions in-kind 3,158,739 3,073,567

Interest and dividends 167,634 173,572

Other income/Awards Dinner 231,049 1,155,056

TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE $ 7,377,068 $ 7,948,795

Expenses:PROGRAM SERVICES:

Scholarship programs $ 5,401,960 $ 5,266,308

Education programs and training 27,163 24,402

Information dissemination 326,583 361,914

Research and policy 360,926 244,113

Total Program Services $ 6,116,632 $ 5,896,737

Development 535,891 652,288

Management and general 867,738 774,754

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 7,520,261 $ 7,323,779

Excess (deficiency) of operating public support and revenue over expenses $ (143,193) $ 625,016

Other Income (Expenses):Gains (loss) on investments $ 768,442 $ 189,931

Total other income (expenses) $ 768,442 $ 189,931

Changes in net assets $ 625,249 $ 814,947

Net Assets at Beginning of Year $ 8,851,083 $ 8,036,136

NET ASSETS AT END OF YEAR $ 9,476,332 $ 8,851,083

These financial statements are a condensed version of the audited statements of the National ActionCouncil for Minorities in Engineering, Inc., for the year ending August 31, 2011.

NACME will be pleased to provide complete copies along with all footnotes and the unqualifiedreport of our independent auditor, upon request.

You may obtain a copy of the latest annual report filed with the N.Y. State Board of Social Welfareby writing to the Secretary, State of New York, 162 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12231,Attention: Charitable Registration Division.


Donors and Partners

Corporate, Foundation and CFC Donors University Partners $500,000 and OverUniversity of Arkansas

$200,000 to $499,999Drexel UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyPolytechnic Institute of New York University

$100,000 to $199,999Louisiana State UniversityPurdue UniversityUniversity of Colorado at BoulderUniversity of Illinois, Urbana

$50,000 to $99,999The City College of New YorkFlorida A&M UniversityPolytechnic University of Puerto Rico

$25,000 to $49,999Milwaukee School of EngineeringMissouri University of Science and TechnologyRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologySyracuse UniversityUniversity of AkronUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyUniversity of Texas, El Paso

$10,000 to $24,999Bucknell UniversityFairfield UniversityKettering UniversityMichigan Technological UniversityStevens Institute of TechnologyTennessee Technological UniversityUniversity of KentuckyThe University of Texas at San AntonioUniversity of Washington

$5,000 to $9,999Cornell UniversityUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaWest Virginia University

$2,5000 to $4,999Florida International UniversityUniversity of Alaska, AnchorageUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of Southern California

$500,000 to $1,000,000AT&T Inc. and AT&T Foundation

$200,000 to $499,999Alfred P. Sloan FoundationExxon Mobil Corporation

$100,000 to $199,9993MBAE Systems, Inc. BP plcCravath, Swaine & MooreGeneral Electric CompanyLockheed Martin CorporationMarathon Oil CompanyThe Dow Chemical Company

$50,000 to $99,999ARCADIS U.S., Inc. Stephen Bechtel FundBristol-Myers Squibb CompanyChevron CorporationCisco Systems, Inc.Consolidated Edison Company of New York, IncDeloitte & Touche LLPDuPontEMC CorporationEntergy CorporationEOG Resources, Inc.Ford Motor CompanyGeneral Motors CorporationHewlett-Packard CompanyIBM CorporationIntel CorporationITT CorporationJohnson Controls, Inc.L-3 Communications CorporationMerck & Co., Inc.Northrop Grumman Corporation

Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc.Procter & Gamble CompanyRaytheon Company Shell Oil CompanyThe Barkley FundThe Boeing CompanyThe UPS FoundationXerox Corporation

$25,000 to $49,999Kelley Drye & Warren LLPMotorola FoundationResearch In Motion CorporationSymantec Corporation

$10,000 to $24,999Crowell & Moring LLPEmerson Electric CompanyGeorgia-Pacific CorporationHess CorporationThe Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc.The Medtronic FoundationPraxair, Inc.PSEG Services CorporationRockwell CollinsSkanska USA Civil NortheastSME Education FoundationUnderwriters Laboratories Inc.

$2,500 to $9,999Americas Styrenics LLCJacobs Engineering Group, Inc.Mine Safety Appliances CompanyMolex IncorporatedNew York Power AuthorityNorris FoundationOccidental Petroleum CorporationSonalysts

$100 to $2,499 CFC National Capital Area – Global ImpactConsumers UnionJohn Deere & CompanyJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.CFC – Southern ArizonaCFC – UnknownCFC Brevard County, Inc. United WayCFC Central MarylandCFC Central Northern New Mexico United WayCFC Central OhioCFC Chicago AreaCFC Fort HoodCFC Fort Polk – Central LouisianaCFC Gulf CoastCFC Northeast Florida United WayCFC Northern California (Norcal)CFC of North Central TexasCFC of South Hampton RoadsCFC Overseas Global ImpactCFC Philadelphia AreaCFC PortlandCFC San Antonio AreaCFC Southeastern North CarolinaCFC SuncoastCFC Tennessee Valley HuntsvilleCFC United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc.CFC United Way of Ventura CountyCFC WichitaHarris CorporationKenyon & Kenyon LLPMiami Valley CFC - United Way Of Greater Dayton Area

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Founder’s Circle ($10,000 and up)John A. MacDonald

Chairman’s Circle ($5,000 to $9,999)Curtis BrunsonEileen M. CampbellWilliam P. DeeHoward D. EliasWillie C. MartinJohn J. Tracy and Katherine K. Tracy

Benefactor ($2,500 to $4,999)Rodney C. AdkinsMark W. AlbersJohn E. BethancourtWesley G. BushNicholas M. DonofrioJerry M. HultinGrace TsengPeter B. WileyMichael R. Wilson

Patron ($1,000 to $2,499)Kimberly S. AdamsRodney C. AdkinsJames H. AmmonsVictor W. AsanteRichard D. BailyMichael J. BarberGary M. BudzinskiArthur P. BursonMario R. CristanchoFelicia J. FieldsRonald GloverWilliam GipsonSara HernandezWilliam G. HofmannSaundra Johnson AustinJohn T. LucasMichele Macauda

Gary S. MayIrving P. McPhailDavid C. NagelAnthony C. Neal-GravesPatricia A. NewbyDouglas M. OwenMichael T. PanJoseph A. PattiPercy PierreRamanath I. RamakrishnanCharles E. RedmanLinda S. SanfordRandy StashickPatricia A. StricklandDon W. TaylorLamont TruttlingJames C. VardellEugene and Claudith WashingtonWilliam A. Wulf

Sponsor ($500 to $999)Mary AdamoSusan R. BaileyOlester BensonMathew CarrilloRaymond C. DempseyJohn M. HillShelton A. HowardGina L. HutchinsAnthony “TJ” JacksonJohn A. KrolRobert E. MercerDecatur B. RogersTerry R. SeamonsWilliam J. ShelmonDavid O. Swain and Linda I. Swain0Morris TanenbaumAileen WalterNatasha L. WilsonJohn K. Woodworth

Friend (up to $499)Ashley (Kenyon) LesterAnonymousTimothy AshleyRashod AustinErwin W. BieberNorman K. BucknorTracy M. CarrHenry C. ChapmanAnthony E. ClayvonRaluca CociangaCynthia H. CollverWilbon L. CooperDorien E. CorbinEugene CovingtonTimothy DeinesKenneth A. DelahoussayeEarle DerryCatherine J. DidionTimothy D. DrinkardEsterlene N. DukesDonovan D. FaircloughSandra FloresEverett G. ForemanJose A. GallardoGustavo D. GonzalezVincent C. GuerreraFrancis M. HaasMary Jane HellyarDavid J. HernandezJacqueline Q. HodgeSimone P. HrudaWade D. HutchingsIfiok ItuenHarold V. JacksonKevin J. JacobAlex JohnsonBeverly JohnsonBilly E. JohnsonMark L. JohnsonSandra JohnsonDuane C. JubertWayne A. Kauchak

Jacqueline T. KellyFae L. KorsmoBrenda KrulikPamela Leigh-MackVelma G. LewisObed D. LouissaintMarcie L. LoveDarlene MacKinnonSusan McCulloughDonald McKinnonLuis J. Mendez-MediavilSusanna L. MillerTiffany E. MonroeReginald MurchisonDiana NatalicioTimothy C. PepperKevin R. PetersJohn B. PowerJerry PritchettAlfred L. RandallReynard A. RichardsRonald F. RobertsMark E. RussellThomas M. SalasCarolina J. SanchezMarcy L. SandlesPedro Santiago RiveraCurtis A. ScottCyndi SelkeRobert T. SpencerJohn J. StevensWilliam R. StultzDonald P. TimlinCharles M. VestWendy VincentMichael J. WeirLars M. WellsGregory M. WilkinsEric WilliamsRonald WinderPhilip T. WoodrowLaura Zeno

Individual Donors


NACME Board of Directors (As of August 31, 2011)

Arthur P. BursonVice President, Global Engineering ServicesMerck & Co., Inc.Chairman, NACME, Inc.

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhailPresident and CEO NACME, Inc.

Mary Adamo Vice PresidentHuman ResourcesConsolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Rodney C. AdkinsSenior Vice President IBM Systems and Technology Group IBM Corporation

Mark. W. Albers Senior Vice PresidentExxonMobil Corporation

Dr. James H. Ammons PresidentFlorida A&M University

Michael J. Barber Vice President, HealthymaginationGeneral Electric Company

Erwin W. BieberVice President, Business OperationsIntelligence & SecurityBAE Systems

James R. BlackwellExecutive Vice PresidentTechnology and ServicesChevron Corporation

Curtis BrunsonExecutive Vice PresidentCorporate Strategy & DevelopmentL-3 Communications Corporation

Eileen M. CampbellVice President, Public PolicyMarathon Oil Company

E. Renae ConleyExecutive Vice PresidentHuman Resources and Administration Entergy Corporation

Howard D. EliasPresident and Chief Operating Officer EMC Information Infrastructure & Cloud Services Executive Office of the ChairmanEMC Corporation

Aamir FaridVice President, Manufacturing AmericasShell Oil Products U.S.

Felicia J. FieldsGroup Vice President Human Resources and Corporate ServicesFord Motor Company

William GipsonVice President – R&DProcter & Gamble Company

William G. HofmannGlobal Vice President, Global Engineering SystemsJohnson Controls, Inc.

Hon. Jerry M. HultinPresidentPolytechnic Institute of New York University

Dr. Alexis C. Livanos Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology OfficerNorthrup Grumman Corporation

John T. Lucas Senior Vice PresidentHuman ResourcesLockheed Martin Corporation

Michele MacaudaSenior Vice PresidentEnterprise, Information TechnologyAT&T Services Inc.

John A. MacDonald Senior Vice President and Manager Human Resources and EPC FunctionsBechtel Corporation

Willie C. MartinPresident - U.S. RegionVice President Operations – North AmericaDuPont

David C. NagelExecutive Vice PresidentBP plc

Dr. Diana NatalicioPresidentThe University of Texas at El Paso

Anthony C. Neal-GravesVice President, Intel Architecture GroupGeneral Manager, Workstations and Many Integrated Core ComputingIntel Corporation

Douglas M. Owen, PE, DEE Executive Vice President & Chief Technical OfficerMalcolm Pirnie, The Water Division of ARCADIS

Joseph PattiVice President, Human ResourcesBristol-Myers Squibb Company Ramanath I. RamakrishnanSenior Vice President – EngineeringTechnology, Industrial SectorEaton Corporation

Mark E. RussellCorporate Vice President Engineering, Technology and Mission AssuranceRaytheon Company

Randy StashickVice President of Global EngineeringUnited Parcel Service, Inc.

Brigitta TadmorVice President and Global Head D&I and health PolicyNovartis Institutes fir BioMedical Research, Inc.

Don W. TaylorVice President, Manufacturing,Engineering & EH&SThe Dow Chemical Company

Dr. John J. TracyChief Technology Officer and Senior Vice PresidentEngineering, Operations & Technology The Boeing Company

Dr. Charles M. VestPresidentNational Academy of Engineering

Gregory G. WeaverSenior Client PartnerDeloitte & Touche LLP

Michael R. WilsonPresidentITT Information Systems

John K. WoodworthSenior Vice PresidentCorporate Supply Chain Operations3M

James C. Vardell, IIIPartnerCravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

TBDCiscoHewlett-Packard CompanyXerox Corporation

NACME Officers and Staff (Until August 31, 2011)

Officers StaffDr. Irving Pressley McPhailPresident and CEONACME, Inc.

Saundra Johnson AustinSenior Vice President, Operations

Michael T. PanVice President, Finance/Administration, and Chief Financial Officer.

Aileen WalterVice President, Scholarships and University Programs

Raluca CociangaDirector, Pre-Engineering Programs

Dorien CorbinDevelopment Manager, Annual Gifts

Jennifer CunninghamProgram Manager, Pre-Engineering

Lisa FrehillDirector, Research, Evaluation and Policy

Alex J. JohnsonAdministrative Support

Brenda KrulikDirector, Strategic Communications

Susanna MillerManager, Corporate and Foundation Relations

Julie Saltzman Program Manager, Sloan Graduate Scholarships

Carolina SanchezDirector, Information Technology

Melonia SimpsonProgram Manager, Undergraduate Scholarship Programs

Rosalie Tomaselli-HershfieldExecutive Assistant to President & CEO

Laura ZenoManager, Office Operations

nAcMe, a charitable not-for-profit organization, welcomes your tax-deductible contribution. Visit www.nacme.org/contribute to support our work today.

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Our VisionAn engineering workforce that looks like America.

Our GoalWorking with our partners to produce an engineering graduating class that looks like America.

Our PurposeOur aim is to increase the proportion of African American, American Indian, and Latino graduates in STEM education and careers, our metric is parity in the workforce, and our methodology is connecting the network of like-minded individuals and organizations that share a commitment to these aims.

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