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Short History of NSBE
In 1971, "The Chicago six," John Logan, Brian Harris, George Smith, Ed Coleman, Anthony Harris, and Stan Kirtley, formed the Purdue Society of Black Engineers. In 1974, the Purdue Society of Black Engineers bacame a National body, The Society of Black Engineers. The next year (1975), the first National conference of this new organization was held at Purdue University, which became National Headquarters.

At that first conference, 48 students representing 32 schools chose the new organization's National symbol, wrote a rough draft of the National constitution and divided the organization into six geographical regions. John Carson was elected the first National Chairperson and the name, The National Society of Black Engineers, was officially adopted.

In 1976, NSBE was incorporated as a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas. In 1979, NSBE grew from 5 chapters to about 88 officially charted chapters throughout the country. In 1982, the first headquarter site was established in Washington, DC. Then in 1987, NSBE purchased 344 Commerce Street, Alexandria to use as National Headquarters. Currently, headquarters is located at 1454 Duke Street, Alexandria and there are over 15,000 members in NSBE.

If you wish to have more infomation on the history of NSBE, you may visit the National Site. In addition you may explore the constitution and by laws(pdf) by following the highlighted links.

Misssion
To increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.

Vision
The NSBE experience empowers every member to reach their full potential. We are encouraging our membership to continue the legacy while maintaining leadership roles in NSBE, Black communities, and other professional organizations. We instill pride and value to our members which causes them to want to give back to NSBE in order to produce a continuum of success.

NSBE sets the standard of excellence in providing services to science and engineering students. We maximize our potential collectively to facilitate the development of quality Black engineers.

We are advancing a cultural paradigm which inspires the Black community to achieve greater engineering and scientific feats than ever before.

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