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Paul S. Devrouax born in 1942 was an American architect in Washington, D.C. He founded the architectural design firm of Devrouax+Purnell, and helped design the Verizon Center, Nationals Park, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and the D.C. headquarters of Freddie Mac and Pepco. He co-designed the African-American Civil War Memorial, and provided design adjustments to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Devrouax died his home in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2010.

Georgia Louise Harris Brown
She went to Seaman High School and went to Washburn University between 1936 and 1937. In 1938 she moved to Chicago and enrolled in classes at the Armour Institute of Technology, later known as the Illinois Institute of Technology and studied under Mies van der Rohe. From 1940, she attended the University of Kansas and received her architecture degree in 1944, the first black woman do so from the university. She was responsible for structural calculations on the apartments on 860 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. She worked in Chicago until 1953, when she left for Brazil. One of her reasons for leaving the United States was because "opportunities for advancement were limited by her race" and that in Brazil, there would be fewer racial boundaries to her success. While in Brazil, She was the project manager and designer for a large complex in Osasco and later another owned by Pfizer Pharmaceutical Corporation in Guarulhos.She also designed a Jeep plant in San Bernardo and a shipping facility for Siemens.She also designed an airport for Krupp of Germany.

Treena Livingston Arinzeh is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in New York, New York. She was formerly a Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. She is known for her research on adult stem-cell therapy. Arinzeh takes part in the American Chemical Society's Project Seeds program, opening up her lab for high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds for summer internships. She has won many awards such as QED Award recipient in 2018, George Bugliarello Prize also in 2018 and
Grio Awards recipient in 2010.

To start of this year of Black History Facts, we are starting with the Black Engineer of the Year Award for 2023. The winner is Colin Parris!. Dr. Colin Parris, GE Senior Vice President and GE Digital Chief Technology Officer. Over his 35-year career, Dr. Parris has contributed significantly to the fields of science and engineering with his groundbreaking work in digital transformation across multiple industries, including banking, retail, high-performance computing, manufacturing, healthcare, aviation, and energy. Today at GE, he is applying digital innovation in partnership with some of the world’s largest energy producers and utilities to accelerate the world’s transition to a cleaner and more secure energy future. Dr. Parris will be presented with the 2023 Black Engineer of the Year Award at the 37th annual BEYA STEM Conference, which will be held February 9-11, 2023, at the Ga***rd National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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