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Presentation
North Carolina State University Center for Minority Engineer Development
2000 International Conference on Engineering Education (2000)
  • Tony L. Mitchell, North Carolina State University
  • Sarah A. Rajala, North Carolina State University
  • Laura J. Bottomley, North Carolina State University
  • Mary Clare Robbins, North Carolina State University
Abstract

North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, is the largest state-supported university of the sixteen-campus University of North Carolina educational system. The College of Engineering at NC State University is among the best in the country, offering outstanding degree programs and preparing students for exciting and rewarding careers. Our graduates are heavily recruited internationally for positions in a variety of settings, including business management, construction, transportation, hardware and software development, computer engineering and design. The College of Engineering comprises 10 departments offering 16 BS, 17 MS, and 14 Ph.D. degree programs and conducts the largest undergraduate and graduate engineering education and research programs in the State of North Carolina. The College continues to rank among the United States of America’s leading colleges in the total number of degrees awarded, the number of degrees awarded to women and minorities, the quality of the graduate programs, and research and extension activities. The profession of engineering faces significant challenges in developing a well qualified diverse workforce in sufficient numbers to meet projected needs. Contributing to the shortage of students pursuing engineering degrees is a lack of public understanding of the field and a perception that the field is not open to women and minorities. Both of these problems must be addressed as widely as possible. But information dissemination to adults is too little, too late. Under the Center for Minority Engineer Development, the NC State College of Engineering Directors of Minority Engineering, Recruiting, and Women in Engineering Programs are moving to provide blanket, effective support to, and coverage of all constituents. These constituents include the engineering academic departments, dozens of primary and secondary schools in North Carolina, and scores of major corporations that annually recruit our students for jobs all over the world.

Keywords
  • Activity,
  • diversity,
  • engineering,
  • model,
  • minority
Publication Date
August, 2000
Citation Information
Tony L. Mitchell, Sarah A. Rajala, Laura J. Bottomley and Mary Clare Robbins. "North Carolina State University Center for Minority Engineer Development" 2000 International Conference on Engineering Education (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sarah_rajala/38/