Dr. Eleanor Baum is Dean of Engineering at The Cooper Union in New York City and Executive Director of the Cooper Union Research Foundation. She is an electrical engineer who received her Ph.D. from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1964 after…
Elizabeth "Pete" Plunkett was a successful engineer in the aviation and astronautical fields. She attended the University of Washington and began working for the Boeing Company her sophomore year. Plunkett stayed with the company her entire 37-year…
Evelyn Fowler was part of the small group of women who were the earliest members of SWE. She was a charter member of the New York Section in 1949, a founding member of SWE national in 1950, and a founding member of the Connecticut Section in…
Gloria Reinish was the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree, a master’s degree (both in electrical engineering), and a doctorate (in bioengineering) from Columbia University. She began her career in industry, working for Bell Labs,…
Dr. Irene Peden is Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. She joined the faculty in 1962 and served terms as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Chairman of the EE Dept., in addition to her…
The daughter of a contractor, Isabelle French became interested in engineering at a young age. She graduated in 1944 from Tri-State College with a degree in radio engineering, the first woman at Tri-State to do so. She received an honorary…
Ivy Hooks began her twenty-year-plus career as an aerospace engineer at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, TX. A 1965 master's graduate of the University of Houston in math and physics, she was involved in the early stages of aerodynamics…
Josephine Webb graduated from Purdue University in 1940 and became a Buhl Research Fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology for two years. In 1942 she joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation as a Design…
Lois Bey is a chemical engineer who holds the distinction of being the first woman graduate in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she graduated with honors in 1950. In 2001, Bey received an IIT…
The first person in her family to graduate from high school, Lois Cooper originally went to Tougaloo College in Mississippi to study law. She discovered that she preferred working with numbers and eventually graduated in 1954 with a degree in…