Women in engineering. Pioneers and trailblazers / Pioneers and trailblazers [edited by] Margaret E. Layne. - Reston, Va. : ASCE Press, c2009. - xi, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women engineers bridging the gender gap / From 'engineeresses" to "girl engineers" to "good engineers": a history of women's U.S. engineering education / Multiple-entry visas: gender and engineering in the U.S., 1870-1945 / Petticoats and slide rules / Women in the intellectual development of engineering: a study of persistence and systems thought / Emily W. Roebling, one of the builders of the Bridge / Kate Gleason's careers / Ahead of their time / From computor to electrical engineer: the remarkable career of Edith Clarke / Women can't be engineers / When computers were women / Spotlight on Emma Barth, P.E.: a typical woman engineer? / Flight path / Women leaders in engineering societies / Jill S. Tietjen and Betty Reynolds -- Amy Sue Bix -- Ruth Oldenziel -- Margaret Ingels -- Martha Moore Trescott -- Alva T. Matthews -- Eve Chappell -- Jeff Meade -- James E. Brittain -- Alice C. Goff -- Jennifer S. Light -- Lauren Kata -- Betsy Flagler -- Peggy Layne.

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Women in engineering.
Women engineers.
Women inventors.

TA157 / .W674 2009

620.0082