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Engineering a more diverse future

Executive director's book helps students succeedReid Karl Reid was introduced to the National Society of Black Engineers by his older brother, who brought home NSBE T-shirts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reid followed his brother to MIT in 1980, and NSBE was one of the first organizations he joined as a freshman. As a chapter board member and then chair of the national organization, Reid says he discovered his passion: bringing more African-American and other underrepresented students to engineering and giving them the tools for success. Reid is now executive director of NSBE, a student-led organization with an ambitious goal: Graduate 10,000 black… Read More