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Natnael Jemal Ahmed is a second year
electrical engineering student at Morgan
State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
He has participated in programs such as
CASA Program, Summer Cutch-Up
Program and SEM Financial Awards Programs. He is also an
Honors student. In addition, he is on the dean’s list with a
cumulative GPA of 3.742. He is currently working hard to
become an engineer and to be the first person to graduate from
college in his family.
Dacia Tarleton, who holds a BS in electrical engineering
from Morgan State University and a
master’s in electrical engineering from
Cornell University, graduated with her
MBA from Georgia Institute of
Technology in May 2011. While at
Morgan State, Tarleton was a member
of the Tau Beta Pi national Honor
Society. During her junior year at
Morgan State she was a recipient of the Duracell/NUL
Scholarship/Intern Program for Minority Students. Today, she
works as a senior consultant with North Highland. As an
advocate for giving back to the community, Tarleton has lead
projects with Hands on Atlanta and worked in the Atlanta nonprofit
community through Georgia Tech’s Pro Bono
Consulting Program, which helps Atlanta nonprofits resolve
key strategic challenges.
Willie Smith earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1997
from Morgan State University and a M.S.
degree in Systems Engineering from John
Hopkins University in 2001. He began his
career as an E-Business Consultant for IBM
Global Services in 1997 and is currently a
Quality Assurance Release Lead with UPS.
While attending Morgan State University,
Mr. Smith tutored and mentored with SEM
Math & Science Tutoring Program. Also he received financial
support to attend several conferences.
Ugochukwu Madu participated in the SEM Summer
Research (Summer 2011). He joined
the Morgan State University,
Engineering program and became
exposed more in depth to the STEM
world. He was involved in researching
about Solar panels as a source of
energy and also researching about the
accompanying electronic equipment that is necessary to make
solar panel systems work. He was also involved in the design
and optimization of an inverter- which is one of the electronic
equipment that enable the use of solar panels. He has been on
the Dean’s List at Morgan State, and he is also a student
member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). He is currently in his senior year in the
Electrical Engineering Program at Morgan State University.
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Tara Cousin enrolled in Morgan State University in August
2003 with an undecided major. She decided
to major Industrial Engineering and was a
participant in the Summer Catch-Up
program, a recipient of the SEM Financial
Awards Program. She graduated in May of
2009 with a Bachelors of Science degree in
Industrial Engineering, and landed her a
promising career at Raytheon Missile
Systems in Tucson, Arizona where she works as an Industrial
Engineer for Electro-Optical Operations Center. She is
currently the President of the National Society of Black
Engineers for the city of Tucson.
Karima S. Al-Bari graduated from Morgan State University
in 2008 with a B.S. Degree in Civil
Engineering. As an undergraduate,
Karima was mentored by Dr. John
Wheatland, coordinator of LSAMP
programs, and she was awarded each
semester the Science Engineering and
Mathematics financial award from 2004
to 2008. Between those years she was also a member of many
other LSAMP Programs. With the support of the LSAMP
programs, she was able to participate in the HBCU summit to
report on Morgan State LSAMP student progress. Upon
graduating, Karima landed a full time position with Clark
Construction, LLC.
Brian Roye - B.S. Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering)
May 2011. Brian started out doing
architectural related courses at CCBC. After
which, he transferred into Morgan as a
freshman in the year 2007. He participated in
one of the PACE summer program(Preaccelerated
Curriculum for Engineers. Brian
participated in several summer internships; including the
Bureau of Water and Waste Water (Storm Water Engineering)
for Baltimore City. Brian is now pursuing his master’s degree
in civil engineering with a concentration on structural
engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He hopes to
graduate in December 2012.
Angelitta Marie Britt completed her B.S. in Mathematics in
2008 from Norfolk State University,
where she was a full academic
scholarship recipient and WBHR-
LSAMP researcher. After graduation she
was awarded the George Washington
Carver Fellowship to attend Purdue
University for the Ph.D. Angelitta
participated in Alliances for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
national conferences and after completing
her M.S. degree she began working as a consultant for
Statistical Consulting Service (SCS), Department of
Statistics, at Purdue.