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According to the Society of Women Engineers, women and other minorities constituted approximately 16%-17% of engineering graduate students from 1990 to 2003. Furthermore, in 2003 approximately 20% (approximately 12,000)of new engineers were women, compared with about 80% of men (approximately 49,000).
A resident engineer is a specific construction occupation. It often describes an engineer employed to work from site for the client or the design engineer. The duties include supervision of and issuing of instructions to the contractor and to report regularly to the designer and/or client. [4]
United States portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American engineers . It includes engineers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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.
As a nice transition from Black History Month into Women's History Month, NASA named its D.C. headquarters after its first Black female engineer. Mary W. Jackson became NASA's first Black female ...
There were 13% female engineers in 2016. Usually, the salary of female engineers is 10% less than male engineers. [29] The retention of female engineers is also disproportionally low; in 2006, 62.6% of qualified male engineers were employed in engineering professions, as opposed to 47.1% of qualified female engineers. [34]
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In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1] Women's inventions have historically been concentrated in some areas, such as chemistry and education, and rare in others, such as physics, and electrical and mechanical engineering. [ 1 ]