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Survey Names Top Corporate and Government Supporters Of Black Engineering Schools
By USBE Online
Apr 2, 2012, 18:41

A tenth 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 tenth 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 reader’s 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.”

On the corporate side, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, The Boeing Company and Shell Oil top the list.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) headed the government and non-profit list followed closely by NASA, Army Research Lab, Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation.

Here is a complete list of the companies that were named as the 2012 Top Supporters of the HBCUs:

3M Company
Abbott Laboratories
Accenture
Aerotek
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Air Force Research Laboratory
Allstate
ARCADIS
BAE Systems
Booz Allen Hamilton
BP America
Caterpillar Inc.
Chevron
Chrysler Group LLC
CIA
Constellation Energy
Corning Incorporated
Cummins Inc.
Danfoss Turbocor
Dominion Power
DuPont
Entergy
Environmental and GEO Specialists
Exxon Mobil
Ford Motor Company
GE
General Motors
Gilbane Building Company
Halliburton
Harley Davidson
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Huntington Ingalls
IBM
IEEE
Ingersoll Rand
Intel Corporation
Jacobs Technology
John Deere
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls
L-3 Communications
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Malcolm Pirnie
Marathon Oil
Merck & Co., Inc.
Meridian Management Group
Microsoft
Missile Defense Agency
The MITRE Corporation
NASA
National Institute of Health
National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
National Space Grant Foundation
NAVAIR
NAVSEA
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Nuclear Regulatory Agency
Nucor Steel
Office of Naval Research
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Proctor & Gamble
Raytheon Company
Rockwell Collins
Rolls Royce
Shell Oil
Siemens
State Farm
Texas Instruments Inc.
The Boeing Company
Toyota
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
U.S. Army CECOM
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Material Command
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Marines
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
U.S. Navy
Unison Industries
UPS
USDA
Verizon
Volkswagen
Walmart
Xerox