NSBE Origins
This year the National Society of Black Engineers was founded.
What is 1975?
This major annual NSBE event connects students with hundreds of recruiters and companies.
What is the NSBE Annual Convention?
This NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker water gun.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
This term describes the inclusion of different backgrounds and perspectives in engineering teams.
What is diversity?
Who is the current vice president?
Who is Alston
NSBE was founded at this university in Indiana.
What is Purdue University?
NSBE Jr. primarily serves students in this education level.
What is K–12 (pre-college students)?
She became NASA’s first Black female engineer and was featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Mary Jackson?
NSBE’s mission includes increasing both the number and success of Black engineers in this field.
What is STEM (or engineering)?
Black professionals make up roughly this percentage of the U.S. engineering workforce.
What is about 5 percent?
This group of students created NSBE to support Black engineering students academically and professionally.
Who are Black engineering students at Purdue?
This NSBE pillar emphasizes strong academic performance among members.
What is academic excellence?
This computer engineer helped develop the IBM personal computer architecture.
Who is Mark Dean?
A lack of this resource was one major reason NSBE was founded, referring to guidance from experienced professionals.
What is mentorship?
AI facial recognition systems often perform less accurately for this group of users.
What is darker-skinned individuals?
NSBE was originally called this before adopting its current name.
What is the Black Society of Engineers (BSE)?
NSBE operates in regions across the U.S., commonly known by this letter-number naming system.
What are Regions (Region I–VI)?
This electrical engineer invented the traffic light and gas mask improvements.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This challenge refers to students leaving engineering majors before graduating.
What is retention?
To prevent biased AI, engineers must do this to the training data.
What is diversify, clean, or rebalance it?
NSBE’s founding mission focused on increasing the number of these professionals who excel academically and impact the community.
Who are culturally responsible Black engineers?
This professional development benefit includes resume reviews, networking, and career preparation resources.
What is career development or professional development?
This mathematician’s NASA calculations were critical to early U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Engineering solutions improve when teams include varied perspectives because of this concept.
What is innovation through diversity?
The first step to preventing hacks is identifying this inside the system.
What is vulnerability or weak points?