How open is the engineering field to minorities?
Ever since a 1970s study by the National Science Foundation showed that minorities (with the exception of Asian Americans) were vastly underrepresented in engineering, the profession has made efforts to recruit minorities. Various programs now exist to acquaint minority students and their families and teachers with the field as well as to mentor and support minority engineering students. Though the rates of enrollment have shot up, actual numbers of minority engineers are still low.
