Anne Arundel Community College was recently awarded a $598,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help increase minority interest in science and mathematical fields, specifically engineering.
The program will give minority students up to $4,000 a year in scholarships so that they can graduate from AACC’s engineering program and transfer to a four year school where they can pursue their bachelor’s degree in that area of study.
“We are all very excited,” said professor Alycia Marshall who is overseeing the program, I hope it’s going to help people.”
Currently only about 19% of the people who work in the engineering field are minorities. African-Americans are the least represented of the major minority groups. Only about 2% of all engineers are African-Americans.
Professor Marshall hopes that this program will help increase AACC’s national and local presence.
“AAC will be know as an institution that produces highly qualified engineers,” she said.
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