Bruce Hill

The International Engineering Consortium is a non-profit organization that aims to advance the electrical and computer engineering enterprise. The private company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United States. It is comprised of historically minority serving institutions working together towards this goal.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Alcatel-Lucent Holdings, Inc. develops and builds communications networks. It provides equipment, software, and related network services for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers. The company supplies broadband Internet access products and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for residential and small business end-users. It is headquartered in Plano, TX.

AT & T is the global leader in providing local, long distance, Internet, and transaction-based voice and data services. AT&T provides unparalleled quality and reliability in communications services

Santera Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures switching equipments. The firm also provides solutions for telecommunications network. Its products include switches, signaling gateways, application servers and media gateway controllers. The company was founded in 1998 and is located in Plano, TX

Netrake Corp. provides voice network products. It offers session controllers and network address translators. The company was founded by Brian M. Forbes and Robert Maher in 2000 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.