Posted on November 23rd, 2016 by Mary Lord
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, pioneered computer programming languages, discovered the first computer “bug,” and retired as the Navy’s highest ranking, longest-serving female officer in history. They even named a naval destroyer after her.
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Tags: Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Engineering in History, History, Mathematics, Science, Women in Engineering, Women in Science
Posted on February 14th, 2011 by Jaimie Schock
Software engineer Sarah Blow enlists other female techies in events to promote engineering girl power. Thus was born Girl Geek Dinners, a networking organization for women in technology that’s since gone global.
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Tags: Events, Minority Group Engineers, Prism, Prism article, Women in Engineering, Women in Science
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by ASEE
In the late 1950s, Rachel Carson began to realize that mankind had acquired the power “to change drastically — or even destroy — the physical world.” Her book on the damage caused by chemical pesticides changed history.
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Tags: Environmental Engineering, Women in Science
Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
A recent survey of women and underrepresented minorities who hold STEM degrees found that many of them were discouraged from seeking their careers. But, what was, perhaps, eyebrow-raising was that most of those affected said the discouragement came from college professors.
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Tags: African-American engineers, African-American Students, Hispanic Students, Latino Students, Minority Group Engineers, Research, Research on Learning, Women in Engineering, Women in Science
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by ASEE
The 2009 Women in Science Booklet is produced by Science/AAAS in collaboration with the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation. The interview profiles of young women at the start of their science careers tell their stories of passion and persistence —what drives and excites them about their work in the sciences. Girls, boys, and educators will find fun and inspiration in these pages and learn a little about life as a scientist.
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Tags: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Booklet, Programs for Girls, UNESCO, Women in Engineering, Women in Science
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by ASEE
Five downloadable articles on earthquakes are available from The American Museum of Natural History, including accounts by middle and high school students, a explanatory piece titled “Forecasting Earthquakes Using Paleoseismology,” and a profile of Inge Lehmann, the female Danish seismologist whose 1920s investigations led to greater understanding of the Earth’s inner core.
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Tags: Earthquake materials, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Museums, Seismology, Web Resources, Women in Science
