Scholarship
The Class of 1969 Endowed Scholarship
North Carolina A&T State University
Awarded in recognition of academic excellence for the 2026–2027 academic year.
RECOGNITION & CONTRIBUTIONS
Honors, Leadership & Professional Service
Recognition, technical service, professional memberships, mentorship, and community engagement supporting engineering research, education, innovation, and STEM development.
RECOGNITION
Honors & Awards
Selected academic, research, innovation, scholarship, and competition recognition.
Innovation Award
U.S. University Innovation Award
Aggie First Response Team
Recognized for contributing to the development of an 8+1 composite quad-plane designed for long-range emergency-response missions.
National Finalist
NIST First Responder UAS Challenge Finalist
First Responder UAS 3D Mapping Challenge
Selected as a finalist for developing a GPS-denied aerial platform supporting real-time indoor mapping, human detection, and emergency response operations.
Competition Recognition
GoAero Competition First-Round Recognition
Aggie First Response Team
Recognized for contributing to an innovative long-range aerial emergency-response vehicle concept.
TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
Professional Service
Contributions to peer review, research evaluation, mentoring, and the broader engineering community.
Conference Reviewer
Review technical submissions for relevance, novelty, methodology, experimental validity, reproducibility, presentation quality, and overall research contribution.
NASA MUREP Reviewer
Contributed as a reviewer for NASA Minority University Research and Education Project activities, including ACEIR 2.0.
Research & Project Mentoring
Support students and project teams in engineering design, experimentation, technical communication, research methods, and technical problem-solving.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Leadership & STEM Outreach
Mentoring and educational activities that encourage young students to explore engineering, robotics, research, and innovation.
FIRST LEGO League Robotics Coach
Coach K–8 students in robotics, innovation-project development, teamwork, engineering design, research, and technical presentation.
K–8 STEM Outreach
Organize engineering-learning opportunities, university laboratory engagement, and STEM exposure activities for school students.
Teaching & Academic Mentorship
Apply more than six years of higher-education teaching experience to student mentoring, laboratory instruction, project guidance, and engineering education.
AFFILIATIONS
Professional Memberships
Memberships supporting professional development, engineering research, publication, technical engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Graduate Student Membership
IEEE Graduate Student Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Graduate Student Member of IEEE with professional interests in communications, RF and microwave engineering, antennas, intelligent sensing, signal processing, and autonomous systems.
Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.
Membership Grade: Graduate Student Member
Society Membership: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
IEEE Member Number: 93381950
Professional Membership
IFERP Professional Member
Institute for Engineering Research and Publication
Professional member of IFERP, supporting engagement in engineering research, technical publication, professional development, knowledge exchange, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Membership Grade: Professional Member
Membership ID: PROF-41993345
COLLABORATION
Interested in research, technical service, or STEM outreach?
I welcome opportunities to collaborate in communications, RF and microwave engineering, intelligent sensing, autonomous systems, engineering education, technical reviewing, and community outreach.