Social events give African- American engineers a rare opportunity to mingle in an industry dominated by white men. What it's really like being black in Silicon Valley.

The percentage of African-American engineering faculty in predominantly white colleges and universities is approximately 2 percent and has not improved significantly over the past decade. The paucity ...

Insight into notable African-American electronics engineers. What tech they invented, developed, or improved. What their lasting legacies will mean for the future. From the early days of resistors ...

Determined to make Silicon Valley representative of America one engineer at a time, Weidman Powers named her organization after the year of America's projected shift to African Americans and ...

African Americans are seeing growth in engineering and physical sciences but are not progressing at the same rate when compared to the general population. A report examined the number of bachelor ...

There are already a scant amount of African American engineering degree holders, but the number is minuscule for African American women; they account for about 25% of engineering school graduates.

It’s snot what you think. But first, in the late ’80s and early ’90s when the worldwide web was first being developed, all sorts of hardware and software were being created for the new network. And ...

At the national level, NSBE started a campaign called “2025.” Its goal is to increase the number of African-American engineering graduates from 4,000 to 10,000 by the year 2025.

PITTSBURG — A team of local African-American high school students spent 20 Saturdays researching, designing, building and programing a robot. On Saturday, they got their chance to show it off ...

A dozen African-American girls build a gravity cruiser, a small car-like machine, on the floor at Ivy Preparatory Academy in Atlanta. The cruiser uses the power generated by a weighted plastic ...

This article was originally published on USAToday.com on Oct. 7, 2015. Makinde Adeagbo knows how isolating it can be to live and work in Silicon Valley as an African American. He says it’s even ...