Dr. Vanessa Aponte Williams has used a systems engineering approach to bridge her interests in chemical engineering and space travel.
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As Mother’s Day approaches, we celebrate an engineer who earned her degree at MIT while raising her daughter as a single mom, Noramay Cadena.
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Marleen Sundgaard knew from the age of five she wanted to be an astronaut and has pursued that dream with great drive and passion.
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Mary Jackson carved her own career path in engineering at NASA before switching roles to help others rise to the top.
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Today is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating the work of Dr. Joan Brennecke, who is researching ways to use ionic liquids to develop green processes.
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Inspired by the Apollo moon missions “missile woman” Tessy Thomas has always been fascinated with science and mathematics.
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Kitty O’Brien was the first female engineer hired by NACA, the predecessor of NASA.
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Margaret Knight nearly didn’t get credit for an invention that changed the world: the first machine made to create flat bottomed paper bags.
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Today, we’d like you to meet Edith Clarke, the first woman to be hired as an electrical engineer in the U.S.
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Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is an aerospace engineer at NASA, and was the first African-American woman to get a PhD in engineering at Howard University.
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