http://www.blackengineer.com Black Engineer Technology Engineering Entrepreneurs-USBE magazine provides news about black technology, black entrepreneurs, BEYA conference, black engineers and technologists from black community in US, UK, Caribbean and Africa. Plugged In Black Engineer Articles en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_788.shtml IBM has created Innov8 as a new way to teach MBAs and young IT professionals – many of whom have grown up playing video games – about competing successfully in business. Innov8 is an interactive, 3-D educational game designed to bridge the gap in understanding between IT teams and business leaders in an organization. en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_749.shtml ABC News recently ran a story, “Black Universities Now Recruiting Latinos.” The clip purported that HBCUs are having trouble attracting students and that Morehouse College in Atlanta and Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama, are looking in another direction, with campaigns to recruit more Hispanics. In 2006, Morehouse’s 2,800 all-male student body had a total of 15 Hispanics. en-us Keeping pace with today’s students is a big challenge, but the 57-year-old JETS or Junior Engineering and Technology Society is moving full speed ahead to update their image and increase the attention of young people from every background, according to JET administrators who say they have sharpened their focus and reshaped their message to woo students who in the past may have missed out on all that JETS had had to offer. en-us During Black Music Month, KFC invites aspiring artists and musicians to join the competition and submit their best music for what could become KFC's new theme song for its Pride 360° program. The winning artist, who creatively incorporates the key words Individual, Family, Community, Heritage and KFC into the song, will receive a recording opportunity worth $5,000 and an appearance on BET's "Rap City." Artists may upload their audio submissions at www.kfc.com/pride360 en-us Boeing has become one of the newest members of the Billion Dollar Roundtable, an organization that brings together corporations in the telecommunications, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, and retail industries that achieved spending of at least $1 billion annually with minority- and woman-owned suppliers. Joan Robinson-Berry, Boeing director of Supplier Diversity for its Integrated Defense Systems business, will represent the aerospace company on the roundtable's board of directors. en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_700.shtml Most women and men (89 and 87 percent respectively) are employed within a year following graduation. Most new college graduates are at the beginning of their careers and typically don't have extensive professional experience. Yet, one year after college, female graduates working full time earn only about 80 percent as much as male graduates earn, according to an examination of the gender pay gap for college graduates released recently. en-us The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) announced today that as part of its 25th anniversary celebration it will award $25,000 in scholarships this year. The awards will go to the winners of the CompTIA 25th Anniversary IT Scholarship Essay Contest, targeted at high school seniors and college students attending academic institutions that are members of the CompTIA Education to Careers program. en-us The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its crew are home after a nearly 12-day journey of more than 4.9 million miles in space. The mission restarted assembly of the International Space Station by delivering and installing the massive P3/P4 truss and solar arrays which will boost power capabilities and pave the way for station expansion. en-us Atlantis astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Joe Tanner worked in space for more than 6 hours Tuesday to prepare the International Space Station's newly installed P3/P4 truss for operation. The 17-ton segment will add a set of giant solar panels and batteries, doubling the station's power capabilities. Astronauts Daniel Burbank and Steve MacLean make another spacewalk Wednesday to prepare the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint, which will turn the new solar arrays to track the sun. en-us The Broadband World Forum Americas will bring together senior executives from a range of industry players, including cable companies, telcos, wireless operators, ISPs, CLECs, and ASPs, to examine the applications, services, and content that are driving broadband demand, as well as the network solutions and technologies that are making them a reality. en-us Text messaging, the Internet, chat rooms and social networking sites can aid teenage drug use, says the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The ONDCP has published an Open Letter to Parents which focuses on the ways in which technology can aid teen drug use and outlines how parents can monitor teens’ digital activities. "The pusher has moved to the PC. With one click of the mouse, teens can enter a virtual world of drugs," said John P. Walters, director of National Drug Control Policy. "The Internet can teach teens how to buy or make drugs, how to use different drugs and other products to get high, and how to beat drug tests." en-us African Americans are wealthier than the overall affluent market, more bullish than the average affluent investor, show slightly higher total net worth and assets at an average of 46 - eight years younger than their affluent counterparts, and place more importance on having a financial plan. Still, only 52 percent of affluent Blacks have designated a primary professional advisor, compared with nearly two-thirds of all affluent households. These are some of the key findings of Phoenix Marketing International Affluent Marketing Service - a twice-yearly summary of affluent and high net worth households throughout the U.S. According to data from 7,842 interviews conducted in 2004-5, opportunities exist to tap into a powerful and growing market that are also far less likely to be retired. en-us