He was one of the finest black engineers, you know, and even he thought that ordered machines couldn't be made without black iron.

'But the tunnel network should have protected the system,' a black engineer sitting close to Culver said sharply.

The black engineer, Jackson, was next to him, the others gone, presumably swept back along the corridor their human chain had straddled.

Under his leadership, the college, with 14,400 students, became the leading source of black and Hispanic engineers in the country.

So far, black engineers, sales managers and others in jobs that deal directly with products have been spared.

"Ninety percent of the wedding party are black engineers, and blacks aren't supposed to be mathematicians or scientists," the bride said a few days beforehand.

He was a black engineer, eager to learn the commercial end of the business.

Now the department graduates 100 black engineers a year.

She tread water, staring at the black engineer.

As a black female engineer with a topnotch education and work experience, I was repeatedly advised to look for work in the "housekeeping sector."