About NSBE Lehigh:
NSBE Lehigh is an organization dedicated to providing academic and professional support to all students, regardless of their major.
Students of diverse ethnic and academic backgrounds are encouraged and welcomed to join and will encounter an environment where they can grow academically and professionally. Our chapter tends to put a twist on professional events, providing fun and hands on learning experiences. While becoming better leaders both within the Lehigh community as well as outside, we feel as though it is our mission to retain students throughout their entire Lehigh career to ensure that everyone graduates ready to take on “life after college.”
The Lehigh chapter of NSBE also works to provide a supporting and welcoming environment in hopes of retaining students in NSBE and Lehigh as well. We hope to cultivate an environment that assists students and connects them with the resources they need to excel. NSBE Lehigh is part of Region II (The Model Region) and is in the Danger Zone.
Students of diverse ethnic and academic backgrounds are encouraged and welcomed to join and will encounter an environment where they can grow academically and professionally. Our chapter tends to put a twist on professional events, providing fun and hands on learning experiences. While becoming better leaders both within the Lehigh community as well as outside, we feel as though it is our mission to retain students throughout their entire Lehigh career to ensure that everyone graduates ready to take on “life after college.”
The Lehigh chapter of NSBE also works to provide a supporting and welcoming environment in hopes of retaining students in NSBE and Lehigh as well. We hope to cultivate an environment that assists students and connects them with the resources they need to excel. NSBE Lehigh is part of Region II (The Model Region) and is in the Danger Zone.
About NSBE:Link to the National NSBE website: http://www.nsbe.org/
In 1971, two Purdue undergraduate students, Edward Barnette (now deceased) and Fred Cooper approached the dean of engineering at Purdue University with the concept of starting the Black Society of Engineers (BSE). They wanted to establish a student organization to help improve the recruitment and retention of black engineering students. Three years later in 1974, that dream came to fruition with the active participation of the young men whose destiny was to become the founders of NSBE. Now known as the "Chicago Six", these men are Anthony Harris, Brian Harris, Stanley L. Kirtley, John W. Logan, Jr., Edward A. Coleman, and George A. Smith. Encouraged by their on-campus success, Anthony Harris, president of the Purdue chapter, wrote a letter to the presidents and deans of every accredited engineering program in the country (288), explained the Society of Black Engineers (SBE) concept and asked them to identify black student leaders, organizations and faculty members who might support their efforts on a national basis. Approximately 80 schools responded. It was at that historic meeting through majority vote, that SBE became the National Society of Black Engineers. |