isuzurover
2nd March 2011, 08:21 PM
I was having a conversation today with a colleague about female engineers of note/fame (or abundant good looks ;) )...
The only one my mate could come up with was cindy crawford, who did 3 months of engineering at uni.
A quick search revealed (in no particular order):
Laura Shields - minor model/actress with MSc in Chem Eng
Summer Williams - NASA Aerospace engineer and cheerleader!
SI.com - Writers - Aditi Kinkhabwala: No joke, this Texans cheerleader works with NASA - Wednesday January 3, 2007 4:59PM (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/index.html)
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/p1_summercheer2.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/p1_summerwilliams1.jpg
Hedy Lamarr
Though known primarily for her extraordinary beauty and her celebrity in a film career as a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age", Lamarr was also a scientist, inventor and mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications, a key to many forms of wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.[1]
Pic: http://kentuckypress.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/419zigvuiul-_ss500_.jpg
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD
Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton
Being elected to the National Academy of Engineering or NAE is one of the highest honor that can be given to an engineer. In 1965, Lillian Gilbreth became the first woman engineer elected to the NAE. In 1973, Grace Hopper became the second woman engineer elected. Mildred Dresselhaus was the third woman engineer elected in 1974. Betsy Ancker-Johnson was the fourth woman engineer elected to the NAE in 1975. To date, 2,330 male engineers have been elected to the NAE since 1964 compared to the only 37 women engineers that have been elected.
So - any others???
The only one my mate could come up with was cindy crawford, who did 3 months of engineering at uni.
A quick search revealed (in no particular order):
Laura Shields - minor model/actress with MSc in Chem Eng
Summer Williams - NASA Aerospace engineer and cheerleader!
SI.com - Writers - Aditi Kinkhabwala: No joke, this Texans cheerleader works with NASA - Wednesday January 3, 2007 4:59PM (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/index.html)
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/p1_summercheer2.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/aditi_kinkhabwala/01/03/rocket.scientist/p1_summerwilliams1.jpg
Hedy Lamarr
Though known primarily for her extraordinary beauty and her celebrity in a film career as a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age", Lamarr was also a scientist, inventor and mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications, a key to many forms of wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.[1]
Pic: http://kentuckypress.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/419zigvuiul-_ss500_.jpg
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD
Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton
Being elected to the National Academy of Engineering or NAE is one of the highest honor that can be given to an engineer. In 1965, Lillian Gilbreth became the first woman engineer elected to the NAE. In 1973, Grace Hopper became the second woman engineer elected. Mildred Dresselhaus was the third woman engineer elected in 1974. Betsy Ancker-Johnson was the fourth woman engineer elected to the NAE in 1975. To date, 2,330 male engineers have been elected to the NAE since 1964 compared to the only 37 women engineers that have been elected.
So - any others???