Dickerson didn’t come straight to engineering. As a high school student, he was actually set on being a physician. Talented in many areas, including math and science, one of his teachers told him he should consider pursuing engineering as a major due to his knack for the area. This idea was strengthened by the outreach efforts of visitors from the National Society of Black Engineers doing outreach. “I wanted to find ways to impact health, but I realized I could do that in a number of different ways.”
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