HBCU Engineering Colleges: Contributions and Future Directions

该项目将支持由塔斯基吉大学工程学院与一些工程系和工程学院、专业组织和个别专家合作举办的讲习班/专题讨论会的发展和实施。这一活动将促进收集信息，以确定HBCU工程学校在代表人数不足的少数族裔，特别是非洲裔美国学生中取得学位成功所使用的方法。研讨会还将讨论加强HBCU工程机构的愿景，确定哪些战略可能有助于学生的进一步发展，以及改善企业伙伴关系、政府服务和与多数机构的合作。通过确定成功的做法，并通过拟议的协作网站和通过参与机构的其他基于参与者的交流来传播这些调查结果，PI预计工程学系/学院将被激励考虑如何通过利用研讨会确定的最佳做法(并由与会者记录)来改进其学术方案。

The project will support the development and implementation of a workshop/symposium, held by the College of Engineering of Tuskegee University, in partnership with a number of engineering departments and engineering colleges, professional organizations, and individual experts. The event will facilitate the gathering of information to establish the methods used by the HBCU engineering schools to achieve success in degree production among underrepresented minorities, especially African-American students. The symposium will also address the development of a vision for strengthening HBCU engineering institutions, determining what strategies might assist the further development of students, and improving corporate partnerships, governmental service, and collaboration with majority institutions. By identifying successful practices and disseminating these findings by way of the proposed collaborative website and other participant-based communications through participating institutions, the PI anticipates that engineering departments/colleges will be motivated to consider ways to improve their academic programs through use of the best practices established in the symposium (and documented by participants).