Women+in+Engineering

Even if you are not a girl, there are some really good resources to learn about career opportunities in Engineering and related fields, like Information Technology. Many IT professionals are engineers, and not just computer engineers. Industrial, manufacturing, electrical and mechanical engineers all play important roles in designing, building, maintaining and improving information technologies.

Just a few of the amazing women who are transforming our world through science, technology, math and engineering.
 * [|Maria Klaw - President of Harvey Mudd College] - Maria Klawe began her tenure as Harvey Mudd College’s first female president in 2006. Before joining HMC, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University.


 * [|Clara Dirscoll] - the creative force behind the Tiffany lamp she was director, designer and crafter of the more than thirty Tiffany lamps produced by the company; among them the famous Wisteria, Dragonfly, Peony, and from all accounts her first — the Daffodil.

[|Six Women Who Paved the Way for Female Engineers and Architects] - history of women working in traditionally male-dominated fields. Beginning with the changing cultural sentiments that allowed females to seek work in the construction industry during the Industrial Revolution, Lewis traces how women excelled in many of these new roles, playing an important part in projects across the country.


 * [|Marion Mahony Griffin] - One of the first female licensed architects in the U.S., Marion Mahony Griffin was also a talented artist—which is why legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright hired her as his first employee in 1895. Griffin designed stained glass panels and decorative furniture pieces as well as buildings, but she used her artistic prowess to help transform the field of architectural drafting. Through gorgeous watercolor renderings of potential projects, Griffin developed a signature drawing style which Wright became known for and turned his architectural renderings into art.


 * [|Julia Morgan] - Armed with both a civil engineering degree and an architecture degree, Morgan became one of the most prolific and financially successful architects of her time. Although best known for her decades of work on Hearst Castle (above), the sprawling estate of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Morgan designed 700 buildings throughout her career, including dozens of YWCA buildings. Oakland YWCA >She majored in [|civil engineering] at Berkeley and was an early expert in reinforced concrete construction methods, which came in especially handy after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. more...


 * [|Aine Brazil] has been responsible for overseeing groundbreaking methods that have allowed some of the world's tallest and most unique buildings and infrastructure projects to be constructed. The Irish native worked at engineering firm Arup before starting at Thornton Tomasetti, where she was the lead structural engineer for 11 Times Square


 * [|Emily Warren Roebling] - For 14 years, Emily acted as chief engineer on the project while fighting to ensure that Washington did not lose credit for his work. In 1883, she was the first person to cross the finished Brooklyn Bridge in a carriage.


 * [|Ellen Biddle Shipman] - landscape architecture. She was known for her formal gardens like the Henry W. Longfellow Place in Cambridge, and clients like Ford, Astor, and DuPont, and opened her own office in New York City, where she only hired women designers.


 * [|Margaret Ingels] studied engineering at the University of Kentucky, and became the first woman to receive a graduate degree in mechanical engineering in the country. But an early fascination with air conditioning—not a prevalent technology in the early 1900s!—led her to Carrier Lyle Heating and Ventilation Corporation, where she helped develop the Anderson-Armspach dust determinator, which became the industry standard for air filtration, as well as the sling psychrometer, which measures air humidity and is still used today. She was well-known for her lectures and traveled across the country to deliver them, including one entitled "Petticoats and Slide Rules."

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 * [|History of Women in Engineering]
 * [|Great Women in Engineering History] - Long before women engineers were considered something special, some amazing women were doing great things to pave the way. Although their contributions are sometimes unrecognized, women with a little ingenuity have always had the power to do great things.
 * [|34 American Lady Scientists Who Changed the World] - Scientists, physicians, mathematicians, and engineers.
 * [|Makers] - showcasing thousands of compelling stories - both known and unknown - from trailblazing women of today and tomorrow.
 * [|National Center for Women and Information Technology] - [|NCWIT Pacesetters] program - 20 universities and 14 companies nationwide participate. NCWIT Pacesetters is a 2-year program in which senior leaders from companies and universities publicly commit to increasing the number of women in the US computing and technology workforce. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation  (NSF), Google and Qualcomm.
 * [|National Center for Women and Information Technology] (NCWIT) K-12 resources

Colleges, universities
 * [|University of Toronto] - Cristina Amon - Dean of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. Over 750 faculty, researchers and staff with an annual operating and research budget of $250M, more than 5,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students. [|Women] - Undergrads 26.8% of 4,488. Masters 22.2% of 870. Doctoral (PhD) 22.2% of 571 (2013)


 * [|Harvey Mudd College] awarded more engineering degrees to women than to men at its annual commencement, May 18. Fifty-six percent of students who graduated this spring in engineering were female, and 44 percent were male. The College conferred bachelor of science degrees upon 173 students—88 men and 85 women. May 2014


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World War II, employer programs
 * [|Curtiss-Wright Cadettes] - In 1942-43, Curtiss-Wright developed programs with universities (including Cornell University, Purdue University, Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State College (University), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Texas) to train women in engineering. This was one of the first programs specifically geared towards recruiting and training women as engineers.

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