UNITE aims to promote careers in engineering and technology at the high school level by providing high school students access to academic enrichment courses on college campuses. UNITE is designed to support socially and economically disadvantaged high school students.

Coordinated by the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) and funded by the US Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, the Uninitiates Introduction to Engineering Program (UNITE), encourages high school students to pursue a college education in Engineering. UNITE prepares high school students for college by having them attend summer classes on college campus, which is comparable to an academic experience of a first-year student in a college or university engineering program. The summer classes offer hands-on activities and team-based learning; students discover the relationships between math and science, and real world applications.

Of the UNITE graduates, 79% enrolled in college. Starting in 1993, the scope of the UNITE program was expanded to freshmen and sophomores in high school, thereby identifying and supporting students throughout their four years of high school.