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Profile: Eugene M. DeLoatch Ph.D. – Dean, School of Engineering, Morgan State University
Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch
Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch was amongst those whom dared to dream of space travel at a time when Dr. King was working to ensure that African Americans could freely travel on earth.
When less than 0.5% of all engineers were African American, Dr. DeLoatch, the son of a paper mill worker in Nyack, NY, was inspired to follow his dream, and today stands as the founding Dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., School of Engineering at Morgan State University as well as the Chairman of the Council of Dean’s of Engineering of the Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs). At Morgan State, Dr. DeLoatch has spent the past 28 years producing a generation of engineers that have aided the nation’s leading tech companies as well as government agencies like NASA.
In 2002, DeLoatch was elected president of the American Society for Engineering Education — the first and only African-American to date to hold that position in the organization’s more than 100-year history.
DeLoatch is a member and past secretary of the board of directors of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, and co-founder of the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference, which is now in its 27th year.
DeLoatch was the chair of the electrical engineering department at Howard University’s School of Engineering for more than two decades.
