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

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered worlds 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 womens 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 womens immense, often obscured, contributions to scientific progress.