Chapter ID: CBB642020685

A woman engineer's view of 50 years in the profession (1999)

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Based on several photographs and clippings which span a period of over fifty years, a dozen newspapers will touch on some of the highlights and unusual aspects of the author's engineering career, as well as the careers of her two engineering daughters. The author's scrapbook begins with publicity she received after winning engineering school scholarships, and later, was the first woman to graduate from the Columbia University School of Engineering. It includes letters addressed to "Dear Sir", award of the "women's badge" of Tau Beta Pi, stories about her work at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Sperry Gyroscope Company, and her teaching career at Fairleigh Dickinson University. The author discusses the changes she has seen in women's roles in engineering during the past fifty-five years (1943-98), from her perspectives as a former woman engineer in industry, a current engineering professor, and as the mother of two women engineers.

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Authors & Contributors
Bix, Amy Sue
Yoon, S.
Ortiz, M. T.
William Barr II
Bentil, Ekua
Cunningham, C. M.
Journals
Engineering Studies
Social Studies of Science
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Historical Records of Australian Science
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Publishers
IEEE
The MIT Press
Real Academia de Ingeniería
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Concepts
Women in engineering
Education, engineering
Engineering
Engineers
Conference proceedings
Technology and gender
People
Bentil, Ekua
Ulery, Dana
Vérin, Hélène
Moore, John Barratt
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Spain
Europe
Canada
Australia
India
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Georgia Institute of Technology
WEPAN (Women in Engineering Proactive Network)
New York City Technical College
California Institute of Integral Studies
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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