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The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Co-inventor of imaging x-ray spectrometer. NASA engineer. United States of America Army Civilian Engineer. Jackson, Mary: 1921–2005 Mathematician, Aerospace engineer NASA's first black female engineer Jackson, Shirley: 1946– Physicist Distinguished and pioneering scientific career, achieving several "firsts" as a woman and as an African ...
Mary Jackson (née Winston; [1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a nice transition from Black History Month into Women's History Month, NASA named its D.C. headquarters after its first Black female engineer. Mary W. Jackson became NASA's first Black female ...
Raye Jean Montague (née Jordan; January 21, 1935 – October 10, 2018) [1] was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. She was the first female program manager of ships in the United States Navy .
Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was an American engineer and academic. She was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States [1] and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. [2]
It includes African-American engineers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American women engineers .
Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2014) Joyce Currie Little, "The Role of Women in the History of Computing." Proceedings, Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, New Brunswick, NJ, July 1999, 202–05.