The School of Engineering has invited former Tuskegee Airman Col. George M. Boyd to speak with students at today’s career fair at 10:30 a.m. at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.

Boyd, who is a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, will speak to students about his time in the service and about his career with Boeing.

“He has an excellent background in engineering and entrepreneurship,” said Jerome Hanson, lab director for the aerospace engineering department.

In previous years, the school has held a panel discussion for its diversity symposium. The panel was made up of members from the National Society of Black Engineers, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.

Florence Boldridge, director of diversity programs at the school, changed the symposium for this year.

“We wanted to do something a little different because it was Black History Month,” she said. “With so much emphasis being placed on our military, we thought it would be appropriate.”