The City College of New York’s student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers took first place in three categories in addition to scooping the best “Trailblazer Chapter Award” at the NSBE Region 1 conference in Hauppauge, N.Y.
- Chiziterem Uwaga (senior, mechanical engineering), Individual Challenge Question with his presentation on tackling harmful pathogens;
- Rajiv Wallace (senior, chemistry), in the Technical Research Exhibition;
- “Team Parchment Protectors” comprising Oren Previl (junior, civil engineering), O’Neil Bruno (senior environmental engineering) and Andre Kerr (junior, mechanical engineering) in the Structural Design Team competition.
In addition, Kirk Shillingford, an environmental engineering senior, and the City College NASBE chapter president, was third in the Individual Challenge. His topic was energy storage and space propulsion.
Andre Smithson, a chemistry senior, was second in the Technical Research Exhibition. He was also, along with Oksana James (junior, environmental engineering) and Shadeyrack Quiroz (junior, mechanical engineering), on the CCNY team that placed third in the Structural Design event.
The “Trailblazer Award” was for the chapter that best exemplifies NSBE’s mission which is to academic excellence, professional development and positively impacting the community.
NSBE has 29, 900 members. Region 1 serves the northeastern United States, eastern Canada and the countries of West Africa.
About The City College of New York
Since 1847, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. More than 16, 000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture; the School of Education; the Grove School of Engineering; the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. U.S. News, Princeton Review and Forbes all rank City College among the best colleges and universities in the United States.
