About NAMEPA, Inc. Region A

The NAMEPA, Inc. Region A Program consists of professionals from post secondary institutions, pre-college programs, corporations, and government agencies in the District of Columbia and 11 states in the northeastern United States.

Region A is committed to ensuring that its under represented minority students are made aware of opportunities to learn about and pursue careers in engineering. NAMEPA Region A members share information and work together and with members of other regions and other organizations to ensure that its students are placed in supportive environments in which they have the best opportunities to reach their full potential.

In 1979, a group of Minority Engineering Program Administrators met in Atlanta to discuss the formation of an association that would focus on the issues affecting the recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority students seeking degrees in engineering. A Steering Committee, chaired by Dr. William Gamble, then of Michigan State University, met in Berkeley, California in January of 1980, to create an organizational structure, goals, objectives, a constitution, and bylaws for the new association, as well as to select a name. In January of 1981, the proposals of the Steering Committee were ratified and the group officially became known as the National Association of Minority Engineering Program Administrators.