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September 17, 2007
Alumnus Jerome Crocker Wins GEM Award
Jerome Crocker (MS Elec Egr '01), a Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Engineering Consultant, received the 2007 GEM Student Leadership Award. The award is intended to honor a person who has successfully used a GEM fellowship to achieve outstanding outcomes. He received his GEM fellowship to pursue graduate electrical engineering work at Michigan State University, after getting a B.S. in electrical engineering at Morgan State University on a full scholarship. Crocker was honored with the award at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference in February.
Adding perspective and context to his work, Crocker participates in programs such as "Project CEO" at a community development center. He also works closely with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and lends support to these organizations, as well as his own, by mentoring up-and-coming engineers with an eye toward encouraging his protégés to start grappling with engineering solutions to today’s national security problems. He also created a job conduit for Morgan State University students by founding an organization that creates work opportunities for them.
GEM is the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science Inc. The GEM fellowship programs are designed to offer opportunities for underrepresented minority students to obtain M.S degrees in engineering and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and the natural and physical sciences through a program of paid summer internships and graduate financial assistance. GEM is addressing the critical shortfall in the production of American engineering and scientific talent, with more than three decades of results.
As a nonprofit corporation, GEM's core business is providing graduate fellowships in engineering and science to highly qualified individuals from communities where human capital is virtually untapped. A growing base of corporations, universities, research centers, and U. S. government laboratories partner with GEM to provide Fellows with much-needed financial support—often the deciding factor in pursuing graduate education—and practical experience through advanced-level internships.
BlackEngineer.com article
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