Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Early Days of Engineering

   • Jill S. Tietjen

   Pages 1-11

3. Women Can Be Engineers, Too!

   • Jill S. Tietjen

   Pages 13-24

4. War’s Unintended Consequences

   • Jill S. Tietjen

   Pages 25-42

5. Suburbia and Sputnik

   • Jill S. Tietjen

   Pages 43-58

6. Bridges to the Future

   • Jill S. Tietjen

   Pages 59-81

7. Back Matter

   Pages 83-85

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Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world’s recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse arenas encompassed by the word ‘engineering’ and a nuanced overview of the development of the field, the book includes numerous statistics and thought provoking facts about women’s roles in the achievement of thrilling scientific innovations. This text is a unique resource for students launching research projects in engineering and related fields, professionals interested in gaining a broader understanding of how engineering as a discipline has been impacted by events of global significance, and scholars of women’s immense, often obscured, contributions to scientific progress.

• Educational Trends Engineering
• Engineering Pioneers
• Gender and Engineering
• Gender and Science
• History of Engineering
• History of Science
• Pioneering Women Engineering
• Pioneering Women Science
• Women in Engineering
• Women in STEM
• Women in Science
• Women in Technology

“Numerous books about the historical role of women in science and engineering are biographical in scope. Tietjen, an engineer and a former president of the National Women’s Hall of Fame Board of Directors, provides a hybrid work. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.” (T. S. Reynolds, Choice, Vol. 54 (9), May, 2017)

• Technically Speaking, Inc.,, Greenwood Village, USA

  Jill S. Tietjen

Jill S. Tietjen, PE, is President of the National Women's Hall of Fame in Washington DC, USA. An author, speaker, and professionally licensed electrical engineer, she is one of the USA's top experts on scientific and technical women. She is the CEO of Technically Speaking, a national consulting company specializing in improving technological career opportunities for women and girls. She is a blogger for the Huffington Post, writing on great women throughout US History. She is author or co-author of 5 books, and over 100 articles.

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