Lois Graham was an engineering educator for 36 years during a time when women were not even allowed as engineering students in many schools. She was the first woman to graduate in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1945; the…
Margaret Eller spent her career in the field of engineering graphics and drafting. Having first attended the University of Michigan School of Architecture, Eller went on to receive a B.S. from Wayne State University and a M.S. in engineering graphics…
Margaret Kipilo is an electrical engineer who graduated from Pennsylvania State College during WWII. She went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an Assistant Engineer in System Studies followed by employment at the Pennsylvania Electric…
Margaret Taber is an electrical and electronics engineering educator whose career nearly parallels the development of electronic, or computer, technology. She graduated from Cleveland State University in 1958 with two bachelor degrees, one in…
Mary McCarthy was a freshman studying communications technology at an Oklahoma junior college when the United States entered the Second World War. She joined the Civil Service shortly after and spent the war years repairing damaged planes and…
Maryly Van Leer Peck is President Emeritus of Polk Community College, where in 1982 she served as its first woman president, and consequently the first woman president of a Florida institution of higher learning. Throughout her over 45-year career,…
Naomi McAfee was a pioneer in the field of reliability and quality engineering.
She received her B.S. degree in physics from Western Kentucky University in 1956. After graduation she joined Westinghouse Defense and Electronic Systems Center in…
Patricia Brown is a chemical engineer whose career took a different path than most. Graduating as the first woman chemical engineer from Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Brown went on to earn her master's in chemistry from the University of Texas.…
Realizing that her dream of becoming a concert pianist would not materialize, Ruth Gordon instead decided to pursue a degree in civil engineering at Stanford University. She completed a master's degree in structural engineering in 1950 and has since…
Stella Lawrence Daniels' career spans both industry and academia. With a master's in mathematics and physics from New York University, Daniels went on to pursue engineering. Before graduating with a master's in electrical engineering from the…