Engineering Education Blog: Women Engineers, Computer Scientists and Inventors

Women's History Month 2008 poster
Photo of 4 women involved with ENIAC Women engineering presidents photo
Poster of Grace Hopper Conference 2008
 

March is Women’s History Month. Below I highlight some of the Engineering Pathway’s blogs on women’s contributions to engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship.

Patricia Galloway, first female president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), blogs on Elsie Eaves - first female engineer in ASCE to be elected as a full member on March 14, 1927.

Lucy Sanders, CEO of the Center for Women in Information Technology blogs on the unveiling of the ENIAC on February 14, 1946, the world’s first digital electronic computer, as well as on the contributions of women in computing.

Jasmina Vujic, Chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley, blogs on Lise Meitner and her groundbreaking publication that first introduced the world to nuclear fission on February 11, 1939.

Photo of Sara Breedlove Walker
Photo of Helen Taussig Graphic of Mary Phelps Jacob
 

Chad-Eric Montgommery blogs on two African American women. On March 1, 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first African American woman to receive a medical degree. Also see the blog on Sara Breedlove Walker, the first self-made millionairess hair product inventions for African American women.

Pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Helen Taussig, was one of the doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed the first open heart surgery on November 29, 1944.

I enjoyed researching for the blog on November 13, 1913 – Mary Phelps Jacobs invents modern bra. And also on Dr. Mary Walker, the first female army surgeon to be awarded the Medal of Honor on November 11, 1875.

Beyond Bias and Barriers
Check out the Engineering Pathway’s many educational resources on women in engineering, women in information technology, women inventors and gender equity. Also read and comment on our most commented resource - the National Academies’ Beyond Bias and Barriers report.

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