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2012 Diversity Award
2013 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo
ECEDHA is pleased to announce a new award for 2012, the Diversity Award.
This award is given to department(s) or individual(s) in recognition of proactive efforts
to increase cultural, ethic, and gender diversity within the ECE student body and
among ECE faculty, that go well beyond and above the normal institutional recruiting
practices. The selection is based primarily on a qualitative evaluation of the diversity
initiative as described on the nomination form to recognize and encourage effective
outstanding initiatives that lead to greater diversity within ECE programs.
WE ARE PLEASED TO RECOGNIZE OUR 2012 DIVERSITY AWARD RECIPIENT
Craig Scott
Department Chair
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Morgan State University
Dr. Craig Scott has spent six of his past 21 years as a
department head, providing unsurpassed service in terms
of leadership, management and mentoring support to the
students, faculty and staff of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. He
consistently demonstrates that he is a pioneer and leader
in engineering education pedagogies that are profoundly
impacting the quantity and quality of numerous minority
professionals entering the workforce.
Morgan State University is among 14 institutions classified
as a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) that
conveys an accredited engineering degree. At Morgan State
University, Dr. Scott has accomplished the following:
• Having the ECE department ranked repeatedly for the
past 10 years, among the top 5 engineering schools in
the nation that produce African American engineers with
a Bachelor’s degree.
• Oversight into the Associate of Science in Engineering
effort within the State of Maryland which is responsible
for creating and governing the first state led outcomesbased
articulation process, for students to move directly
into four-year degree programs.
• Serving as the conceiver and director of the
“Fundamentals of Engineering” freshman pre-calculus
two course sequence designed to leverage individualized
instruction and active learning teaching strategies to
improve retention/graduation rates.
• Architect of the “Two Plus Two” online Electrical
Engineering program that leverages cost effective mobile
laboratory technology to become the first Electrical
Engineering program in the country to offer a fully
online option.
• Positioning the department to be one of a few electrical
programs developing a massively open online course
(MOOC) as encouraged by our institutional presence and
contributions to the White House Initiative on Historically
Black Colleges and Universities. The aforementioned
initiatives are in part responsible for the national
preeminence earned by this department. The selfless
contributions of the chair, faculty and staff have resulted
in the conferring of hundreds of degrees to recipients that,
in some cases would not have been able to achieve a
graduate status elsewhere.
March 22–26, 2013
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Orlando, Florida