 I am Cornelius Masuku. I'm an associate professor of engineering practice in the School of Chemical Engineering. I teach black engineers. For me, to teach black engineers is important because, I mean, to try to help the society, it's important to specifically have examples of people that have done the same thing, that have been in the same environment, that can help you go through the same system. Chemical Engineering is very challenging. So if you don't have a family that have done it before, or example of people that have gone through the systems before, it might be a big challenge to step through. So I try to help students to bring in an example, and not just only for the teaching itself in terms of the content, but also to make sure that there are other parts in terms of life that they get support as well. For me, the main reason I actually became an engineer was because of some of the issues that I saw around me, that the environment was not so good. There was a lot of industrial pollution that was happening. So I wanted to become an engineer to try to contribute to solving solutions. And sometimes you do need people that are in the same environment to bring in the solutions that are more appropriate to that environment. That's why I'm passionate about teaching and supporting black engineers so that they can help contribute to their own environment by bringing solutions that affect them directly. I'm from South Africa, and in South Africa, engineers and even faculty are still predominantly white. So in terms of transformation and diversity, still not that diverse. So unless there is some direct intervention to try to bring in people into the system, things don't change by themselves. So for me, I was brought in as advised by Diane Helderbrand, who was one of the top professors who was bringing people from different backgrounds, which in a way helped start that process. And also after getting my PhD, I also got a faculty position and also started advising students myself. And I saw that most of the people don't struggle with the actual content. They struggle with other issues in the systems that could be financial, it could be support, it could be just emotional support. Of course just being there for students might go a long way, of which that's what I plan to bring here. I have been involved in design of systems in the past. I was part of a team that designed a pilot plan that we implemented in China. So my plan here at Purdue is to bring that experience to try to teach some of the black engineers here to bring in solutions that they can take into their own environment.