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The judging panel [9] was chaired by Dawn Bonfield MBE, and included Leon Krill from the Daily Telegraph, Allan Cook CBE, chairman of Atkins, Professor John Perkins, author of the Engineering Skills Survey from the University of Manchester, [10] Fiona Tatton, editor of Womanthology [11] and Michelle Richmond, director of membership and professional development at the Institution of Engineering ...
According to the Women's Engineering Society 's statistics document, 12.37% of engineers in the UK are female in 2018. 25.4% of females from 16 to 18 years old plan to have a career in the engineering field, compared to 51.9% of males from the same age group. [42]
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.
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). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her ...
Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was an American electrical engineer. 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] She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of ...
Nina Cameron Graham became the first British woman to earn an engineering degree in 1912. The 1911 census recorded no woman listing her profession as an engineer. [8] However, at the start of the 20th century in the UK, there were greater opportunities for women to study at university and there were more instances of women studying for degrees in physics, mathematics, and engineering subjects ...
Irène Joliot-Curie [10] and Dorothy Hodgkin [11] were also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 and 1964, respectively. Lise Meitner is the female physicist the most nominated, 16 times for Physics and 14 times for Chemistry. [20]
[162] [163] In freshman year 330 women and 320 men will express an intent to study science or engineering. [164] Of these only 142 women and 135 men will actually obtain a bachelor's degree in science or engineering, [162] [165] and only 7 women and 10 men will obtain a PhD in science or engineering. [162] [166] [61]