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DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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John Brooks Slaughter
Honored with the first "U.S. Black Engineer of the Year" award in 1987,
and named to the American Society for Engineering Education Hall of Fame in 1993,
Dr. John Brooks Slaughter is a leader in the education, engineering and the
scientific communities. He has served on the Committee on Minorities in Engineering
and chairs the Action Forum on Engineering Workforce Diversity for the National Academy of Engineering.
A former director of the National Science Foundation, he is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Slaughter earned a Ph.D. in engineering science
from the University of California, at San Diego and holds honorary degrees from more than 20 institutions
Dr. Slaughter is the current President and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
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George Peterson
Dr. George D. Peterson is well known for his role with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET),
which sets standards for technology education in America. Educating educators is what he does best; he has been preparing
technical professionals for decades and was awarded a Black Engineer of the Year Award for Promotion of Higher Education in 1999.
Dr. Peterson graduated from North Carolina A&T State University and served as an Air Force officer from 1966-1988.
He studied at the Air War College before taking a master's degree in electrical engineering.
He did his doctoral work at the University of Illinois. Dr. Peterson's career includes time as chair of
electrical engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, professor and assistant vice president
for academic affairs at Morgan State University, and head of undergraduate faculty and
teacher development for the National Science Foundation. He also was a tenured faculty
member at the Air Force Academy. He chairs the Specialized and Professional
Advisory Panel of the Council of Education and sits on other Council committees,
as well as many other committees and panels setting standards for technology education.
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Shirley Jackson
First is a familiar word used to describe Dr. Shirley Anne Jackson: She is the first African-American woman
to receive a doctorate from M.I.T. She is one of the first two African-American women to receive
a doctorate in physics in the U.S. She is the first African-American
woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She is the first African-American
to become a Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
She is both the first woman and the first African-American to serve
as the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and now
the first African-American woman to lead a national research university
as President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Lonnie Johnson
Success came early for Lonnie G. Johnson;
as a senior in high school, he made a remote controlled robot from junkyard scraps
and won first place in a national science competition. A scholarship in mathematics
took him to Tuskegee University where he earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Two years later, he completed a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering.
After his studies, Lonnie began a distinguished career; he served with distinction
in the Air Force, and during his nine year career with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
in Pasadena, California, he received multiple achievement awards from NASA for his work
on spacecraft system design. Lonnie is the founder and president of several companies,
and currently holds over 80 patents with dozens more pending. Lonnie's most famous invention,
the Super Soaker water gun, generated over $200 million in retail sales in 1992. In 2000,
Lonnie G. Johnson was named to the Inventor Hall of Fame.
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Clues
CLUE #3: He invented oil-dripping cups for trains
CLUE #4: He studied mechanical engineering in Edinburgh, Scotland
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