Famous Women Engineers

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Introduction to Engineering
CURIE Program July 12-19, 2003

• Famous Women Engineers
• Judith Resnik (electrical engineer)
• Challenger astronaut
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
  Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
  University of Maryland in 1977
• Bonnie Dunbar (ceramics, mechanical, biomedical
  engineer)
• 4-time NASA astronaut, including the first
  shuttle mission docking with the Russian Space
  Station Mir
• B.S. M.S. in ceramic engineering from the
  University of Washington
• Ph.D. mechanical/biomedical engineering from the
  University of Houston
• Lillian Gilbreth (mechanical, industrial
  engineer)
• A pioneer in the field of time-and-motion
  studies, worked with companies to increase
  efficiency and production through budgeting of
  time, energy, and money
• Ph.D. in psychology from Brown University
• Professor at Purdue's School of Mechanical
  Engineering, Newark School of Engineering and the
  University of Wisconsin

Engineering is the professional and systematic
application of science to the efficient
utilization of natural resources to produce
wealth. T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
"Engineering is an activity other than purely
manual and physical work which brings about the
utilization of the materials and laws of nature
for the good of humanity. R. E. Hellmund, 1929

• Famous Local Engineers
• Ezra Cornell
• Founder of Cornell University in 1865
• Created a plow that would both dig the trench and
  lay the cable for telegraph, and a machine for
  withdrawing faulty wires
• Bill Nye (mechanical engineer)
• Mechanical engineering degree from Cornell
  University
• Worked for Boeing before becoming the "science
  guy"
• Willis Haviland Carrier (mechanical engineer)
• Engineer and inventor
• Attended Cornell University and graduated with an
  M.E. in 1901
• Developed the formulae and equipment that made
  air conditioning possible
• Matthew Miller (mechanical engineer)
• Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace
  Engineering, Cornell University
• B.S. 1988 (Colorado School of Mines), M.S. 1990,
  Ph.D. 1993 (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Played football for the Cleveland Browns
  (1979-1983) and the Denver Gold (1984,1985).

• Famous Multi-Career Engineers
• Frank Capra (chemical engineer)
• B.S. Chemical Engineering from CalTech
• Directed films including "It Happened One
  Night"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"It's a
  Wonderful Life"
• Tom Landry (industrial engineer)
• B.S. Industrial Engineering from University of
  Houston
• Lead the Dallas Cowboys to five Super Bowls
• Tom Scholtz (mechanical engineer)
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering from MIT
• Leader of the rock band Boston

• Famous Presidential Engineers
• Herbert Hoover (mining engineer)
• 31st President of the United States
• B.S. Mining Engineering from Stanford University
  (1895)
• Worked as lead engineer for private company in
  China before becoming president
• Jimmy Carter (nuclear engineer)
• 39th President of the United States
• Georgia Tech
• United States Naval Academy in 1946
• 10 year U.S. Navy career working with
  nuclear-powered submarines

Engineering is the science of economy, of
conserving the energy, kinetic and potential,
provided and stored up by nature for the use of
man. It is the business of engineering to utilize
this energy to the best advantage, so that there
may be the least possible waste. William A.
Smith, 1908
"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not
a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not
a sociologist or a writer but he may use the
knowledge and techniques of any or all of these
disciplines in solving engineering problems." N.
W. Dougherty, 1955
"Engineering is the art or science of making
practical." Samuel C. Florman, 1976
"The engineer has been, and is, a maker of
history." James Kip Finch, 1960