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部门和工程学院、专业组织和个人专家合作举办的研讨会/研讨会的发展和实施。该活动将有助于收集信息，以确定HBCU工程学院使用的方法，以便在代表性不足的少数民族，特别是非洲裔美国学生中成功地获得学位。研讨会还将讨论加强HBCU工程学院的愿景，确定哪些战略可以帮助学生进一步发展，以及改善企业伙伴关系，政府服务和与大多数机构的合作。通过确定成功的实践，并通过提议的合作网站和参与机构的其他基于参与者的交流方式传播这些发现，PI预计工程部门/学院将被激励考虑通过使用研讨会中建立的最佳实践（并由参与者记录）来改进其学术课程的方法。

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).