Sentences with phrase «first woman engineer»

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«Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry,» Hedlund commented.

He also played a key role in establishing the Cummins College of Engineering, India's first engineering college for women, in Pune.

Gouw's first engineering job was at General Motors with 1,000 design engineers — only two of whom were women.

Along the way, it weaves in big - picture perspectives from women like investor Joanne Wilson; White House CTO Megan Smith; GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling; and Ruchi Sanghvi, the first female engineer at Facebook.

Carisa Malanum: Our new lactation rooms were launched in Fall 2014 and one of our first citywide conventions that took advantage of our accommodations was the Society of Women Engineers with nearly 6,000 attendees....

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

What is evident from these discussions is that efforts to increase the numbers of women employees in academia and the private sector will need to consider solutions to the reasons women tend to forego careers in engineering in the first place.

This first - of - its kind policy is seen as one way to help boost the number of tenured women in science and engineering departments.

► «Engineer Jill Hruby was named director of the Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, becoming the first woman to head one of three U.S. government labs charged with developing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Tuesday.

Regina Dugan, a mechanical engineer with a background in explosives detection, has become the first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Although the field of engineering is dominated by Caucasian males and has very few minorities present, especially women, I am proud to be the first Native American Woman to graduate from the MSU program.

As part of the University of Oklahoma's Multi-Cultural Engineering Program, Simmons joined a close - knit group of students and admired faculty member Pamela McCauley - Bell, a former welfare recipient and teen mother who earned a PhD in engineering — the first black woman in Oklahoma to do so.

For example, Panetta said, STEM programs that don't require students to declare a major or enter a college of science or engineering when they first enroll seem to have a much higher proportion of underrepresented students, particularly women.

With over 20 years of experience in engineering and construction, she became the first African American woman to build a Burger King in New York 22 years ago.

(I've studied and worked in engineering, where the ratio of men to women is extremely skewed) And the men I've held most dear I was first attracted to by watching the quality of their work.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

Ochoa is not only the first Hispanic woman in space but also an engineer with several patents under her belt, as well as the current director of the Johnson Space Center.

This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life take shape - she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful - he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love.

Among the many milestones she achieved at Con Edison, she is one of few women utility company executives in America and was one of the first women in New York City to receive a stationary engineer's license.

In 1977, Lehigh University first opened its engineering school to women.

[89] Baum, an electrical engineer, was the first woman to be named as the Dean of an engineering college or university in the United States and was recently named to the National Women's Hall of Fame.

In a time when the words affirmative action are unmentionable in some corners of academia, Dr. Eleanor Baum, electrical engineer, dean of engineering at Cooper Union in New York and the first woman to head an engineering college anywhere, is running a one - woman affirmative action campaign that is transforming engineering.

In 1984, Baum was named dean of Pratt Institute's School of Engineering in New York, a distinctive role because it made her the first woman dean of an engineering school in the United States.

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