The Academically Interested Minorities (AIM) program can add national honors to its already long list of awards. AIM was recognized by the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Administrators (NAMEPA) as an exceptional contributor to increasing the participation of minorities in engineering disciplines in higher education at their annual conference in Las Vegas, Nev. April 10 to 13.
Ricky Brown, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs at Kettering, has worked with the AIM program since 1994. "We are honored and thrilled to be recognized at the national level by our peers," said Brown.
"Pre-college programs are the beginning stage of bringing students into engineering programs," he said. "At Kettering we have been working hard to increase the number of minority students in engineering programs."
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