Chief Executive Officer, Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) – Veronica L. Nelson
Veronica L. Nelson is the Chief Executive Officer of Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE). AMIE is a coalition of corporations, government agencies and the seventeen (17) ABET accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Schools of Engineering. She leads AMIE in developing strategies to expand corporate, government, and academic partnerships to implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate, and place minority students in engineering careers and increase diversity in the engineering workforce.
Veronica has over 35 years of STEM experience in Engineering and Human Resources. Veronica has over 18 years of experience in process engineering, developing Automated Assembly Processes, and over nine years of experience in Engineering Management and Human Resources, where she managed Career Pathways Programs, Diversity Recruiting, Professional Development Rotation Programs, Interns Programs, and University Relations & Recruiting at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Veronica was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, responsible for developing, managing, and implementing firm-wide Strategies for University and Diversity Recruiting.
Veronica is the recipient of the 2024 Black Engineer of the Year – Dr. Eugene DeLoatch Legacy Award for her leadership and transformational work with the HBCU Schools of Engineering as the Chief Executive Officer of AMIE. Veronica has received many awards throughout her career for her passion and commitment to increase Diversity in the STEM Pipeline. She was awarded the 3rd North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Diversity Award and the 2018 Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) Conference Award for Women of Color History Makers in Diversity for her commitment to increasing Diversity in the Workforce. She received the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Educational Leadership – Promotion of Higher Education (K – 12) and the 2007 Women of Color in Technology Award for Educational Leadership – Corporate Promotion of Education (K – 12) for her passion, commitment and dedication to promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in K – 12.
Veronica earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her master’s degree in mechanical engineering with a concentration in Robotics from Howard University. She received the National GEM Consortium Fellowship and was the first female to obtain her master’s in mechanical engineering from Howard University.
Veronica is the proud mother of two sons who have followed her passion and pursued degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University and Computer Science at North Carolina A&T State University.