NSBE History
What major annual event does NSBE host to help Black engineers secure internships and jobs?
NSBE Annual Career Fair/Conference
What public figure started the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955?
Rosa Parks
Who is the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) Director?
Virginia Womack
What year was Purdue University founded?
1869
Who was the first female rapper to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album?
Cardi B (Invasion of Privacy)
What is the highest leadership position in NSBE?
National Chairperson
Who is known as "The Queen of Jazz"?
Ella Fitzgerald
One of the first Black women engineers at NASA and was featured in the book/movie Hidden Figures
Mary Jackson
Which famous astronaut and Purdue alumnus was the first person to walk on the moon?
What is Neil Armstrong
What movie did this saying come from: "You is kind. You is smart. You is important."?
The Help
How many Special Interest Groups (SIGs) does NSBE have nationally?
12
Who was the first African American woman to go to space?
What is Mae Jemison?
Which poet coined the phrase “I, too, am America” in one of his famous poems?
Langston Hughes
Purdue’s College of Engineering has produced how many astronauts?
What is 27+?
What was the first black show on Disney Channel?
The Proud Family
NSBE expanded internationally. Name one country outside of the U.S. where NSBE has chapters.
Ghana, Canada, Nigeria, or the United Kingdom
Which Black celebrities are EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winners (4)?
Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Whoopie Goldberg, Viola Davis
This former president got a 30 on the ACT and then went to an Occidental College in California, before transferring to Colombia University in New York.
Barack Obama
Who was the first Black American to obtain a mechanical engineering degree from Purdue University in 1894?
David Robert Lewis
Where did the dance Lean with it Rock with it/Laffey Taffy originate from?
Atlanta, GA
NSBE was founded by six students at Purdue University, known as "The Chicago Six”, What are their names?
Edward Coleman, George Smith, Stanley Kirtley, Brian Harris, Anthony Harris, and John Logan.
Dr. Charles Drew revolutionized the medical field by improving the preservation of what?
Blood plasma
An African American inventor and engineer who invented 57 US patents, most of which are related to lubrication systems for steam engines.
Elijah McCoy
In what year did Purdue desegregate its housing, allowing Black students to live in campus dorms?
1947
What was Uncle Ruckus’ ancestry results in the Boondocks?
102% African (with a 2% margin of error)