New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers: Describing the past decade's growth of African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans in the engineering profession as 'marginal at best,' diversity efforts have to increasingly target under-represented K-12 students, according to the president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME).
'Each of those groups has shown marginal increases in the baccalaureate degree production in engineering and in the engineering work force, but the reality is, there is a huge problem with proportionality,' Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail said.
The percentage of engineers from each minority group is still far below each group's percentage in the overall population, he said, and it's important to 'create an engineering work force that looks like America.'
