Engineering Career Awareness Program Receives Award

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Thomas Carter III, assistant dean of academic and student affairs for the College of Engineering, poses with a group of ECAP students

The National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates has selected the Engineering Career Awareness Program, or ECAP, as the 2012 NAMEPA Outstanding Pre-College/Community Organization Award recipient. ECAP will be recognized at the 33^rd annual NAMEPA National Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. at the closing awards banquet on Friday, Jan, 27.

The Engineering Career Awareness Program, which was initiated by College of Engineering alumnus Troy Alley, is designed to recruit students who are underrepresented in the field of engineering, and to give these students the support they need to graduate and begin their careers. ECAP provides financial assistance to qualifying students, as well as a summer bridge program and a network of academic and social support.

“The College of Engineering is very proud of this program, and of the dedicated staff members who have helped it succeed,” said Ashok Saxena, dean of the College of Engineering. “We’d like to congratulate Troy Alley on having the insight to start ECAP, and most of all, we want to congratulate our ECAP students. It is their hard work and successes that have made this program so great.”