Recruiting And Mentoring Of Pre College Minority Students For Electrical And Computer Engineering Programs

As the engineering market continues to grow, the need for diversity is becoming more apparent. The gap continues to widen for minority ethnic groups and women pursuing engineering as a career. This paper describes the efforts and results for actively recruiting minorities and women to an undergraduate electrical and computer engineering program at a Historically Black University. It also describes a series of activities aimed toward producing leaders for tomorrow in industry and academia. Such recruitment of women and minorities is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority at many institutions.