Black engineering students from throughout the United States and Canada attended this event to lay the foundation for an organization which would promote the recruitment, retention, and successful graduation of Blacks in engineering. NSBE develops intensive programs for increasing the participation of Black and other ethnic minorities in the fields of engineering and the engineering technologies. In Pursuit of this mission, NSBE operates through a university-based structure coordinated through regional zones, and administered by the National Executive Board. Using this operational structure, NSBE initiates programs both, within and outside, the university community. NSBE was incorporated in December of 1976 in the state of Texas.
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The local chapters are the center of NSBE activity. Chapters create and conduct projects in the areas of pre-college student interaction, university academic support mechanisms and career guidance programs. NSBE chapters are located on accredited college and university campuses throughout the United States. Additionally, NSBE has laid the foundation for international expansion. The proposal reflecting the origins of the current alumni infrastructure was developed in 1984, and formalized in 1985.