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1953 photograph of Lois Graham in Popular Science. In 1949, Graham became the first female faculty member in IIT's engineering department, and the first female graduate student accepted into its Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering program. IIT had to make an adjustment upon her arrival: converting a small closet into a ladies restroom.
From June 1986–87 she became the first female president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers [3] —the first woman to head a major national engineering society. [5] She retired in 1987. [4] Fitzroy was one of the first female helicopter pilots, and both she and her husband enjoyed flying, sailing and traveling. [1]
1925: Florence Sabin became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [14] 1928: Alice Evans became the first woman elected president of the Society of American Bacteriologists. [15] 1936: Edith Patch became the first female president of the Entomological Society of America. [16]
Dianne Dorland is an American chemical engineer and STEM education advocate. She served as the first female president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. [1] She is also the former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth and the former dean of the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering at Rowan University.
Karen N. Horn became the first woman ever to serve as president of any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and as such the first woman to serve as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. [193] Leah Lowenstein was the first woman dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States. [194] 1983
The Nobel Prize–winning climate scientist made history by being elected the country's first-ever female president. ... energy engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ...
Gertrude Shapiro, 1952–1971, New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science, then renamed New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University) [7] Dora E. Kirby, 1959–1977, Woodbury University; Sr. Doris Smith, S.C., 1972–1992, College of Mount Saint Vincent; Lorene Rogers, 1974–1979, The University of Texas at ...
Ruth Leach Amonette (1916–2004 [2]), IBM's first woman vice president (1943–1953) [3] Dr. Eleanor K. Baum (born 1940), American electrical engineer and educator. First female dean of (Cooper Union) School of Engineering. [4] [5] First female president of the American Society for Engineering Education [6]