| |
Minority Engineer Magazine, launched in 1979, is a career- guidance and recruitment magazine offered at no charge to qualified engineering or computer-science students and professionals who are African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American. Minority Engineer presents career strategies for readers to assimilate into a diversified job marketplace.
This magazine reaches minority engineers nationwide at their home addresses, colleges and universities, and chapters of student and professional organizations.
If you are an engineering student or professional who is a member of a minority group, Minority Engineer is available to you FREE!
|
|
Minority Engineer
» Featured Articles
» Subscription Information
» Reader Survey
» Companies Actively Recruiting
Gallimore Takes Helm at U-M College of Engineering
Alec D. Gallimore, Ph.D. - associate dean for academic affairs, Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner professor of engineering and an Arthur F. Thurnau professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at U-M - now leads the University of Michigan (U-M) College of Engineering, making him the first African American to take over that role in the school’s history.
Gallimore’s appointment also makes him one of a few African-American deans of engineering at predominately white colleges and universities in the U.S.
In his new position he addressed the National Society of Black Engineers’ (NSBE) annual National Leadership Conference (NLC), which was recently held at U-M.
It was Gallimore who garnered support from the U-M administration to have the university host the NLC: a substantial commitment over three years. Dr. Gallimore addressed the NSBE leaders during a special session of this year’s conference.
“When I received the invitation to address student leaders of NSBE, I knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity,” Gallimore says. “I’m humbled and energized to inspire the future engineers who’ll contribute to achieving NSBE’s all-important aspirational goal.”
Increasing the number of African-American engineering deans and faculty across the country is an important component of graduating more black engineers, because of a concept known as self-efficacy: an individual’s belief in his or her capacity to reach a goal or complete a task.
NSBE Executive Director Karl W. Reid, Ed.D., a trained engineer, studied the topic as a doctoral student at Harvard University. His research suggests seeing people to whom you can relate succeed in a chosen area of study or endeavor significantly increases one’s confidence in achievement.
“As a country we need to increase math proficiency rates at the fourth grade, eighth grade and collegiate levels, especially for African Americans, as these rates are indicators for success in attaining engineering degrees,” Reid says. “And we also need to have many more African-American youth able to envision engineering as a career for themselves. NSBE is working to make that possible.”
» Feedback for the Editor
» Request Article Copy
|
|
