Female Engineers

[isuzurover]

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!
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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]

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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???

[Ferret]

So - any others???

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[Mick_Marsh]

I've worked with many. Have for years.
I currently work with a very capable graduate.
My niece is currently studying Electrical Engineering and Law.
What is your point? I would have thought female Landrover enthusiasts were rarer.

[slug_burner]

........ I would have thought female Landrover enthusiasts were rarer.

About the same I'd say. Not one in 120 when I started my degree. We have a few young women coming through our graduate recruitment scheme.

[Tombie]

We have 6 in my work area alone!

[isuzurover]

I've worked with many. Have for years.
I currently work with a very capable graduate.
My niece is currently studying Electrical Engineering and Law.
What is your point? I would have thought female Landrover enthusiasts were rarer.

No "point" - just interested.

It was just a shame that it is easy to come up with any number of influential/famous male engineers to inspire the students (hoover, armstrong, etc, etc...), but when it comes to women?

This year's intake we have 0 females in a number of disciplines.


EDIT - I know there are female engineers out there and lots of people work with female engineers - I was more talking female equivalents of the examples above in this post (hoover, armstrong, bazalguette, etc...)

[digger]

Was it Hedy LAMARR that invented the way to steer torpedoes using radio/sonar? originally ignored during war I believe but eventually got it going!.. was definately an actress who with another bloke got it pretty right..

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(ps 2010 telstra business womens award winner for SA was mel mellen who is an engineer)

[disco2hse]

Summer Williams - NASA Aerospace engineer and cheerleader!

He and another co-worker had decided the best way to meet girls was for Williams to become a cheerleader. They'd buy her lunch, once a week for a year, if she'd try out.

"I stood on that line with 1,000 gorgeous women and I called them and said, 'You're going to owe me sushi every week,"

A very well written and amusing article. The quote above is sooo ``Big Bang Theory''

[rick130]

There was a very good Danish mechanical engineer that worked for a very large multinational, European based refrigeration manufacturer I had some dealings with a bit over ten years ago.

Smart as anything, taught me a few things, pinpointed the problems we were having on a large industrial ice machine quickly and very easy on the eyes too.

But not famous in the sense you are talking of Ben.

[abaddonxi]

A very well written and amusing article. The quote above is sooo ``Big Bang Theory''

So, Leslie Winkle it is, then?

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I know she's a physicist now, but her undergrad was probably engineering.