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Maria Klawe – President of Harvey Mudd College – Maria Klawe began her tenure as Harvey Mudd College’s first female president in 2006. Before joining HMC, she served as dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University. Continue reading Maria Klawe
Ethel H. Bailey was an American mechanical engineer who began her working life in aviation and went on to develop radar and spectroscopic equipment. She was called a ‘trailblazer’ Continue reading Ethel H. Bailey
Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer and author. Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope Continue reading Judith Love Cohen
Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908 – April 29, 2008) was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed Continue reading Mary G. Ross
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (1883-1971) In 1905, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney became the first woman to graduate from Cornell University with a Civil Engineering degree. That same year, she became the first female member, with junior status, of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Continue reading Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
Alice Parker (18??-19??) Underscoring the difficulty of honoring the contributions of African American women prior to the Civil Rights Movement, there are not many details about Alice Parker’s life. She was born in Morristown, NJ and graduated from Howard University in 1910. What we do know, is that Parker applied for and was granted a patent on December 23, 1919 for a gas heating system that was a precursor to modern home central heating. While not the first gas furnace patent, Parker’s design showed a unique multiple burner system, each of which could be individually controlled. Her patent also includes … Continue reading Alice Parker
