Join us for the 2020 AMIE Annual Conference!

Welcome AMIE's new leaders: Scott Trapp, Chairman and Jackie Wynn, Vice Chair! You can learn more about our new leaders here.

3rd Annual Design Challenge:

3^rd Annual AMIE Design Challenge at the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference in Washington, DC on Friday, February 14^th from 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Thurgood Marshall East - Mezzanine Level.

AMIE's 2019 Annual Conference in pictures:

Conference registration is still open! Check here for details and to register: 2019 AMIE Annual Conference and Gala

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Black Engineer of the Year Awards conference founders, DeLoatch and Taborn to receive 2019 NSB Public Service Award (the first African Americans to receive this honor!)

The National Science Board (NSB, Board) is pleased to announce that Eugene DeLoatch and Tyrone Taborn will jointly receive the 2019 NSB Public Service Award. This esteemed award honors exemplary service in promoting public understanding of science and engineering.

DeLoatch is professor and dean emeritus at Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University and Taborn is publisher and chief executive officer of Career Communications Group, Inc. Together, they are being recognized for founding the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) conference and for their dedication to enhancing scientific and engineering literacy in minority communities.

Read the full article about this historic honor here: DeLoatch and Taborn to receive 2019 NSB Public Service Award.

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Take a look!Photos from the 2018 AMIE Annual Conference: The Power of Partnerships!

Welcome our new Officers!

Welcome our newest industry partner: Microsoft!

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Welcome to AMIE...

AMIE (Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to expand corporate, government, and academic alliances to implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate and place underrepresented minority students in engineering careers.
The outcome of an initiative by Abbott Laboratories in 1992, AMIE represents a coalition of industry and government agencies, and the ABET accredited Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Schools of Engineering, who see a diversified workforce as a competitive advantage and an essential business strategy. AMIE acts as…

• A catalyst that forges Industry-Government/Academia partnerships that support programs to advance minorities interest in engineering.
• A promoter and encourager to minority students to pursue engineering careers.
• A facilitator for the recruitment of minority students (coops, interns, graduates, etc.) at member organizations.
• An avenue for members to exchange “Best Practices” and solutions for the development of a diversified engineering workforce.
• An enabler for the creation of Engineering Research/Technology transfer agreements

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 AMIE HBCU Partners in the News

Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) primary purpose is to facilitate partnerships between corporations and/or government agencies and one or more of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) engineering programs to attract, educate, graduate and place underrepresented minority students in engineering careers.  Our (15) HBCU Partner Institutions represent less than 3% of all the Engineering Schools in the country, yet they produce over 30% of all African American engineers in the United States.  Approximately one-third of African American graduates in Science and Engineering are also produce by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).  One quarter of PhD recipients in Science and Engineering received their undergraduate degree from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).  Our (15) HBCU Partner Institutions are a rich resource pool for minority engineering talent.  I would like to share a few stories about three (3) of our HBCU Partners.  Thank you for your continued support of AMIE and our HBCU Partner Engineering Schools. ---Veronica Nelson, AMIE's Executive Director

Meet our Executive Director, Veronica Nelson!

Veronica Nelson is the Executive Director of Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE).  AMIE is a coalition of corporations, government agencies and the fifteen (15) ABET accredited Engineering Schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).  She leads AMIE as it develops strategies to expand corporate, government and academic partnerships to implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate and place minority students in engineering careers and increase diversity in the engineering workforce.

Veronica has over 18 years of experience in process engineering developing Automated Assembly Processes and over 9 years of experience in Engineering Management and Human Resources managing Career Pathways Programs, Diversity Recruiting, Professional Development Rotation Programs, Interns/Co-op Programs and University Relations & Recruiting at Northrop Grumman Corporation.  Veronica served as Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton responsible for developing, managing and implementing firm-wide Strategies for University and Diversity Recruiting. 

Veronica was awarded the 2007 Women of Color in Technology Award for Educational Leadership – Corporate Promotion of Education and the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Educational Leadership – Promotion of Higher Education for her passion and dedication to promoting STEM.

Veronica earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Robotics from Howard University.  She received the National GEM Consortium Fellowship and was the first female to obtain her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University.

Veronica is the proud mother of two sons who have followed her passion and are pursuing degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University and North Carolina A&T State University.

We welcome you to peruse our website to connect to our university and industry partners, learn about our calendar of events and find out who's in the news. For a quick reference, click here.