An eleventh annual survey by US Black Engineer & Information Technology (USBE&IT) magazine has revealed the corporate and government organizations that are considered most supportive of the nation’s historically Black engineering schools.

Participants in the “Top Supporter” survey were the deans of the 14 ABET-accredited, historically Black college and university (HBCU) engineering programs, and the corporate-academic alliance, Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE). The survey asked the deans to list the ten corporate and ten government or non-profit organizations that provide the most support to their schools.

Tyrone Taborn, editor in chief of USBE&IT magazine and chairman and CEO of the magazine’s publisher, Career Communications Group, Inc., says, “Doing this survey for the eleventh consecutive time, we are consistently finding many organizations that are doing their fair share in building the STEM pipeline. This survey reflects the perception that the deans and AMIE share about the level of support that their institutions receive from corporations, which is very important information for our readers to know. Black students and professionals want to know what these organizations are doing for their colleges because they want to work for employers that are committed to their community.”

Companies named as 2013 Top Supporters of HBCUs will be recognized at the Top Supporters of HBCUs Dinner, which will feature a tribute to the engineering dean of Morgan State University, Dr. Eugene DeLoatch. The dinner will be held on June, 1, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore, MD.

“Dr. DeLoatch has always been one of my mentors and helped me co-found the BEYA STEM Conference,” said Taborn. “He is one of the most outstanding leaders in engineering that we have and has continued to work to expand the engineering pipeline in this country.”

On the corporate side, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation and The Boeing Company received the highest number of votes from the committee. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) headed the government and non-profit list followed closely by NASA, U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), U.S. Army Research Lab, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Here is a complete list of the companies that were named as the 2013 Top Supporters of the HBCUs:

Abbott Laboratories
Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering
Aerotek
Air Force Research Lab
Alabama Power
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Altria Group Inc.
Amcom Software
Architecture Research Office
AT&T
ATK Aerospace Group
BAE Systems
Barton-Marlow Construction
Battelle
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bosch
British Petroleum (BP)
Caterpillar Inc.
Chevron
Chrysler Group LLC
Claire Booth Luce Foundation
Comcast
Corning Incorporated
Cummins Inc.
Cytec Industries
Dominion Power
Dow Chemical
Entergy
Exelon Corporation
ExxonMobil
Florida Department of Education
Ford Motor Company
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
General Dynamics
General Electric Foundation
General Electric
General Motors
Golden Leaf Foundation
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Huntington Ingalls
IBM
INROADS
Intel Corporation
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls
L-3 Communications
Lockheed Martin
Louisiana Board of Regents
Louisiana Department of Transportation
Louisiana Space Consortium
Malcolm Pirnie
MeadWestvaco Foundation
Merck
Merck Partnership for Giving
Missile Defense Agency
Morgan Stanley
NASA
National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Norfolk Southern
Northrop Grumman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Office of Naval Research
Parsons Brinkerhoff
Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne
Procter & Gamble
Raytheon Company
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Collins
Rolls Royce
Salesforce Foundation
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Shell Oil
Siemens
Simio LLC
State Farm
Stihl
SynTech Inc.
Texas Instruments
The Boeing Company
The Freelon Group Inc.
The MITRE Corporation
The Proctor & Gamble Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Procter & Gamble Company
The Riversville Foundation
Toyota
Union Pacific
UPS
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command
U.S. Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Department of Army
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Marines
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
U.S. Navy
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Navy
Virginia Department of Transportation
Walmart
Whiting & Turner Construction
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Foundation