Society of Women Engineers records, 1918-1993.

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972

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Frank Bunker Gilbreth had no formal education beyond high school but he rose from bricklayer, to building contractor, to management engineer in a few short years. He and his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth collaborated to develop ways to increase output of workers in manufacturing and clerical positions, as pioneers in the field of industrial engineering. They often used their large family as guinea pigs for their experiments, which are lovingly detailed in the 1948 book “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Pur...

Society of Women Engineers

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Early organization of SWE began with student groups at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia and Cooper Union and City College of New York in New York City in the late 1940s. World War II provided greater opportunity for women to pursue engineering careers. Early pioneers in this area were: Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, Alice Goff and Hilda Counts Edgecomb. In 1950, the first national convention was held at Cooper Union in New Jersey. Dr. Beatrice A. Hicks was elected p...

Federation of Organizations for Professional Women (U.S.)

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Krohn, Barbara, 1954-

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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-l...

Wells, Paula B.

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McAfee, Naomi

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Harness, Arminta

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Hicks, Beatrice

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International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (2nd : 1967 : Cambridge)

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Pressman, Ada

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