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US Black Engineer and Information Technology (USBE) magazine has released the 2017 list of top supporters of historically black college and university (HBCU) engineering.
Each year, USBE surveys the deans of the 15 ABET-accredited HBCU engineering programs, and the corporate-academic alliance Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE), for the annual "Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering Schools” list.
The Top Supporters survey asks HBCU Engineering deans to list organizations that provide the most support to their schools. In completing the survey, the institutions consider support for campus building modernization, research and mentoring, participation on advisory councils, faculty development, scholarships, student projects, stipends, co-ops, and career opportunities.
Representing just 2.3 percent of all colleges and universities in the United States, HBCUs are a source of pride and accomplishment for the African American community as well as the entire nation.
According to Veronica Nelson, who was appointed executive director of AMIE in March 2017, HBCUs are a rich resource for talent in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
"They currently produce 30 percent of all African American engineers in the country and they provide high-quality graduates who are prepared to produce innovative solutions for the most challenging problems,” she said.
Based on the results of this survey, employers and agencies are recognized by USBE Magazine for having gone above and beyond to meet presidential executive orders. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed an Executive Order, which established a federal program "... to overcome the effects of discriminatory treatment and to strengthen and expand the capacity of historically black colleges and universities to provide quality education."
Commenting on the Top Supporters survey, Tyrone D. Taborn, publisher and chief content officer of US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine says, “We are consistently finding organizations that are doing more than their share in building the STEM pipeline.”
“There is a critical need to increase the number of students pursuing degrees in STEM in the United States,” said Ms. Nelson. "HBCUs play a key role in generating the knowledge, innovation and diverse talent required to grow our businesses and maintain/increase our global competitiveness," she said.
Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering 2017 To mark the 15th year of USBE Magazine’s Top Supporters survey, supporters have been ranked in five hierarchies based on the number of survey mentions since 2003. For 2017, there are 394 employers in USBE’s All-Time Top Supporter ranking system, which features five tiers based on how many times the organization has appeared on the list: Diamond (14 annual appearances), Platinum (13-9), Gold (8-6), Silver (5-3), and Bronze (2-1).
Diamond - Industry Apple Inc. The Boeing Company Corning Incorporated General Motors Company IBM Corporation Lockheed Martin Corporation The Raytheon Company Siemens
Diamond - Government
NASA U.S. Department of Education U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Department of Energy
Platinum - Industry
3M Abbott Laboratories Caterpillar Inc. Chevron Corporation Duke Energy Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA US LLC) Ford Motor Company General Electric DCX Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) Intel Corporation Merck & Co Microsoft Corporation Norfolk Southern Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G) Rolls-Royce Shell Oil Company Southern Company Texas Instruments, Inc. Toyota Motor Manufacturing NA United Technologies Corporation Verizon Xerox Corporation
Platinum – Government, Nonprofits
Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineering (AMIE) Battelle Memorial Institute Louisiana Board of Regents NACME National Security Agency National Science Foundation Naval Air Systems Command Naval Sea Systems Command Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Naval Research U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory U.S. Army U.S. Army Research Laboratory U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Transportation U.S. Navy
Gold - Industry
Aerotek Alabama Power Company Altria Group, Inc. Black & Decker (now a Stanley Black & Decker Company) BP America ConocoPhillips Cummins Inc. Deere and Company Dominion Resources Inc. Dow Chemical Company Entergy Corporation General Dynamics Corporation Harris Corporation HDR, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Johnson Controls, Inc. L-3 Technologies (formerly L-3 Communications) Nucor Corporation Parson Brinkerhoff PPG Industries, Inc. Pratt & Whitney Rockwell Collins, Inc. Sprint UPS
Gold – Government, Nonprofits
Central Intelligence Agency Florida Department of Transportation General Electric (GE) Foundation Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Louisiana Dept. of Transportation Missile Defense Agency National Nuclear Security Administration Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Army Research Office
Silver - Industry
Accenture Alcoa Inc. BAE Systems BASF Booz Allen Hamilton Bosch Delon Hampton & Associates DuPont EDS (formerly HP Enterprise, now DXC) Eli Lilly and Company Dell EMC Embarq (now CenturyLink) Exelon Corporation The Freelon Group, Inc. Freescale (now part of NXP Semiconductors) Halliburton Harley Davidson Honda Honeywell Huntington Ingalls Industries JPMorgan Chase Malcolm Pirnie (now Arcadis) Medtronic, Inc. Meridian Management Group (now part of Michelin U.S.) Moog Inc. Motorola, Inc. State Farm TRW Automotive Union Pacific Corporation Volkswagen Wal-Mart Whiting & Turner Construction The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Silver – Government, Nonprofits
Alabama Department of Transportation The State of Alabama The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Brookhaven National Laboratory D.C. Water and Sewer Authority Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Federal Highway Administration Golden Leaf Foundation GE Foundation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Maryland State Highway Administration MeadWestvaco Foundation Michigan State University The MITRE Corporation NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Purdue University The Riverside Foundation Sandia National Laboratory Tennessee Valley Authority Texas Dept. of Transportation U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Command U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army Materiel Command Virginia Dept. Of Transportation
Bronze - Industry
Adtran, Inc. Advanced Systems Research, Inc. Aerojet Rocketdyne Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Allstate Corporation Alps Automotive, Inc. (now Alps) Amcom Software Ansoft Corporation (now Ansys) ARCADIS Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) ARM ATK Aerospace Group AT&T Avaya Balfour Beatty Plc BarrierMed, Inc. Barton Mawlow Construction Bentley Systems, Inc. Black Hills Energy Black & Veatch Boston Scientific Corporation BP America, Inc. BWXT Y-12 (now Babcock and Wilcox) CALIBRE Systems, Inc. Canadian National Railways Center Point Energy Inc. CH2M Cisco Systems Incorporated CiviTech Engineering, Inc. Clark Construction Comcast Constellation Energy Cytec Industries Danfoss Turbocor (Danfoss) DCES Educational Services Delphi Disney Resort Dynatech International Environmental and Geotechnical Specialists (EGS) Florida Power & Light Francis-Mustoe & Company Freeport-McMoRan The Gas Company Gateway GE-Engine Services GEM Consortium Genesis Energy Gilbane Building Co. (part of Gilbane Inc.) Gillette Google Gotama Building Engineers, Inc. Greenberg Farraw Gresham, Smith, and Partners Guidant Corporation Holcim US Huitt-Zollars, Inc. iAM Solutions IMS Engineers Infosys Ingersoll Rand The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Inc. Integrated Management Services, P.A. ITM Partners Jackson Walker LLP KBR Building Group KCI Technologies KOR Electronics (now Mercury Systems, Inc.) KWAME Building Group, Inc. LA Info Technology Imitative Leidos Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. (now part of UPS) MarketSource, Inc. Marathon Oil MeadWestvaco Mistras Group, Inc. Morgan Stanley Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. Parker-Hannifin Corporation Parkview Hospital Power Systems Mfg., LLC Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Purswell & Purswell, Engineering, and Ergonomics, Inc. Que Options Radiance Technologies Raytheon Systems Company Redstone Arsenal Rockwell Automation Salesforce Sam's Club Schlage Science and Engineering Alliance SECME, Inc. Severn Trent Services Simio LLC Sloan Foundation Snap-On Sony Semiconductor Company of America Southwest Airlines Co. Southwest Research Institute SpaceX Spectra Energy Corporation (now Enbridge) STIHL Syn_Tech Systems Fuelmaster, Inc. TEC Masters, Inc. Teledyne Solutions, Inc. Telenext Media Inc. Texaco Thales Group TRANE, Inc. Transportation Technology Unison Industries Turner Construction UGS Corp. Unisys Western Digital Corporation The Whitaker Foundation W.M. Keck Foundation Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now part of Pfizer) Xcel Energy, Inc. Zeltech
Bronze – Government, Nonprofits
Aberdeen Proving Ground Alabama A&M University Alabama Department of Agriculture Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation American Concrete Institute (ACI), San Antonio Chapter American Association of Civil Engineers Maryland Section The Annie E. Casey Foundation Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) Architecture Research Office AT&T Foundation Aviation & Missile Research Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Baltimore City Department of Public Works Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Brown Foundation Brown University The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Center for Advanced Manufactures & Devices The Chrysler Foundation City of Baltimore The Claire Booth Luce Foundation Coalition against Major Diseases Commonwealth of Virginia The District of Columbia Department of Transportation Environmental and Geotechnical Specialists (EGS) Federal Aviation Administration Federal Railroad Administration Florida Department of Education Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida Power & Light Ford Foundation Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) GEM Consortium Hagan Family Foundation Halliburton Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. HIV/AIDS Services Administration Human Resources Higher Education for Development The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Inc. The John G. & Marie Stella Kennedy Memorial Foundation The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation The Loni Institute Louisiana Center for Information Technology Innovation Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund Louisiana Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Louisiana Optical Network Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund Louisiana Space Consortium Louisiana State University Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices LSU School of the Coast and Environment Medtronic Foundation Maryland Department of Environment Maryland Environmental Service Maryland Transit Authority MeadWestvaco Foundation (MeadWestvaco is now WestRock) Metropolitan District Commission Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi Department of Transportation MIT Lincoln Laboratory NASA Stennis Space Center National Academy of Engineers (NAE) National Consortium for Manufacturing Services National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Society of Black Engineers National Space Grant Foundation Naval Surface Combat Systems Center Naval Warfare Centers Northrop Grumman Foundation Office of Naval Intelligence Parkview Hospital The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Penn State Applied Research Laboratory The Procter & Gamble Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Redstone Arsenal Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The Riversville Foundation San Antonio Area Foundation Science and Engineering Alliance Severn Trent Services Sid W Richardson Foundation Southwest Research Institute State Farm Companies Foundation The State of Florida State of North Carolina The State of Texas Research, Innovation, Science and Engineering (Rise) Foundation at City of Hampton, VA Tennessee Department of Transportation Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. The USAA Foundation U.S. Department of the Air Force U.S. Department of the Army U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) U.S. Army CECOM U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center U.S. Army RDECOM U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command U.S. Army Test and Evaluation U.S. Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Energy Global Nuclear Energy Program U.S. Department for International Development U.S. Department of Interior U.S. Department of State U.S. Federal Railway Administration U.S. Patent & Trademark Office U.S. Naval Academy U.S. Naval Research Laboratory United Negro College Fund University of North Carolina at Greensboro UT-Battelle Virginia Department of Aviation The Whitaker Foundation W.M. Keck Foundation The Xerox Foundation The Zachry Foundation
AMIE is a non-profit organization that builds alliances and expands partnerships with corporations and institutions to provide opportunities in engineering. AMIE acts a catalyst, promoter, and facilitator to attract and recruit historically underrepresented minorities to pursue a career in engineering.
US Black Engineer and Information Technology Magazine is published by Career Communications Group, Inc. (CCG). USBE magazine provides news and information about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), STEM entrepreneurs, the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA), and multicultural communities in the U.S., U.K., Caribbean, and in Africa.