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In 2016 the Women's Engineering Society (WES), in collaboration with the Daily Telegraph, produced an inaugural list of the United Kingdom's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering, [1] which was published on National Women in Engineering Day on 23 June 2016.
She was the first female engineering PhD graduate in the United States. She later worked in the fiber industry in China. [62] Ying Hsi Yuan trained as a Civil Engineer in Peiping in the 1930s and worked in bridge design in China before taking a postgraduate engineering degree in University of Liverpool in the 1940s, later working in Hong Kong.
A 1953 Society of Women Engineers board meeting. The first University to award an engineering's bachelor's degree for women was University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth Bragg was the recipient of a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1876, becoming the first female engineer in the United States. [2]
Lim Hyesook (born 1963), electronics engineer, served as Minister of Science and ICT; Oh Hee, (born 1969), mathematician; Paik Hanhee, experimental quantum computing researcher; Park So-Jung (born 1972), chemist; Park Sukyung (born 1973), mechanical engineer, served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022
Emily Warren Roebling (September 23, 1843 – February 28, 1903) was an engineer known for her contributions over a period of more than 10 years to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease (a.k.a. decompression disease) and became bedridden. She served as a liaison and supervisor of ...
An increase in influential female role models has also been cited as a way to increase women's engineering enrollment rates. [ 31 ] surveys collected among 141 female engineering students across the country have shown that many women who placed high confidence levels in their math and science ability also had parents who modeled less ...
As it turned out, I took to engineering like a fish to water, and that frivolous decision set me on a path to work in the semiconductor industry, one of the most male-dominated fields in the world.
In 2016, Childs was named as one of the top 50 most influential women engineers in the UK by The Daily Telegraph and Women's Engineering Society. [17] Childs has been a Trustee of World Skills UK since 2015 and became Deputy Chair [18] in 2022. Childs was the elected President of the Women's Engineering Society, between 2018 and October 2023. [19]