A vertically integrated approach to graduate control engineering education of ethnic minorities

When representatives of high-technology corporations come to US University campuses to recruit science and engineering graduates, they will be hard pressed to find many ethnic minorities, women or people with disabilities. Is anybody surprised on this? The problem is a deep-rooted one indeed. Science, Mathematics and engineering education is among some of the shrinking majors for USA´s graduating high school seniors. The problem is consistently and uniformly spread over the whole population of the United States (including the majority white population), and is even more pronounced among minority population. Some of our major corporations with a dominant role in the international market place are losing grounds to European and Asian competitors, in part, due to lack of vision to ensure for future supply of competent high-tech work force. Here by minority we mean African American, Native American (American Indians), Hispanic American, Alaskans and Pacific Islanders.