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

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.

• Introduction.- The Early Days of Engineering.- Women Can be Engineers, Too!.- War's Unintended Consequences.- Suburbia and Sputnik.- Bridges to the Future.- Bridges to the Future.

"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)