Did you know that a lot of the greatest achievements in advances in our society were courtesy of women engineers?
Women engineers have been shaking it up for quite a while – in honor of National Engineers Week we thought we’d point out a few of our favorites…
#1. Grace Murray Hopper – PhD from Yale in 1934.
This sassy, and smart lady developed 1st computer compiler as a research fellow at Harvard’s Computation Laboratory, she also invented the COBOL programming language, was the first women Admiral in US Navy, the oldest person ever to retire from US Navy, and is credited with inventing the term “computer bug”.
She was visionary about use of computers in the public sector, and the first US citizen to become a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
#2 Marie Curie, PhD
Was from Poland but doctorate in Paris, research on properties of steel in concert with industry needs, helped develop fundamental understanding of radioactivity, won two Nobel Prizes
#3 Marissa Mayer – CEO Yahoo
Marissa is best known perhaps for being a female CEO and prior being employee #20 at Google – however this engineer should also be noted for her work developing key Google products such as images, maps, books, news, and the toolbar – many of which still bear her distinctive stamp.
#4 Linda Cureton, NASA, CIO
As CIO for one of the entities often credited with developing some of the most innovative and interesting engineering and technical concepts, Linda definitely makes this list.
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