4 10 34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Society of Women Engineers Oral History Project: Profiles of SWE Pioneers Description An account of the resource Interviews of pioneering women engineers, across engineering disciplines, conducted to document the history of women in engineering from the 1930s to the present as well as the founding and development of SWE. This project was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers through generous funding provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund and managed by the Reuther Library. Both transcript and videotapes are available. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Yvonne Clark & Irene Sharpe Oral History Description An account of the resource Yvonne Young Clark first became interested in engineering when she was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in high school during the Second World War. She originally considered studying aeronautics engineering but decided instead to pursue mechanical engineering at Howard University. In 1951 she became the first woman at Howard to complete her B.S.M.E. She became a licensed professional engineer and was the first woman to receive a master's degree in engineering management from Vanderbilt University. Clark began her career working at Frankford Arsenal-Gage Laboratories in Philadelphia and RCA in New Jersey. She moved to Nashville with her husband in 1955 but found few opportunities available to her in industry. She accepted a position as a mechanical engineering instructor and became the first female faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University. Clark has taught at TSU for over 50 years, where she served twice as department chair and eventually became an associate professor. During summer breaks at TSU Clark has worked in the field for numerous organizations including the Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, Westinghouse, and Ford Motor Company. Clark joined the Society of Women Engineers in 1952 and has served on its Executive Committee. She was elected to the College of Fellows in 1984 and received the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from SWE in 1998. Clark is also an active member of the American Society of Engineering Education and the Society of Mechanical Engineers. Irene Sharpe recognizes the irony in her career choice, given that her childhood home did not have electricity until she was in middle school. While her family wanted her to become a math teacher Sharpe chose instead to study electrical engineering at Howard University, earning her degree in 1963. Sharpe spent the first 14 years of her career designing power distribution and control systems for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service. In 1977 Sharpe changed the focus of her career, working on automotive electrical systems at Ford Motor Company and later at General Motors Corporation in metropolitan Detroit. In 1988 she joined United Technologies, where she remained until her retirement as a principle engineer in 1999. Sharpe has been a member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1962 and was elected to the College of Fellows in 1990. She has been an officer for several sections, served on the national Executive Committee, and chaired the 1982 national convention. Sharpe is also an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2001-06-29 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Clark, Yvonne; Sharpe, Irene Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Society of Women Engineers Oral History Project: Profiles of SWE Pioneers Description An account of the resource Interviews of pioneering women engineers, across engineering disciplines, conducted to document the history of women in engineering from the 1930s to the present as well as the founding and development of SWE. This project was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers through generous funding provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund and managed by the Reuther Library. Both transcript and videotapes are available. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Patricia Brown Oral History Description An account of the resource Patricia Brown is a chemical engineer whose career took a different path than most. Graduating as the first woman chemical engineer from Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Brown went on to earn her master's in chemistry from the University of Texas. After graduation, Brown briefly taught chemistry at Smith College and then became a research associate at Albany Medical College, after which she worked for Ethyl Corporation in Detroit. While at Ethyl her career as a technical information resources specialist began. In 1955 she took a job as a technical writer at Westinghouse's Bettis Atomic Power Division. After Westinghouse, Brown joined Texas Instruments as Information Services Supervisor in 1957, where she had overall responsibility for administration of the library. She left Texas Instruments for a research career in information storage and retrieval at Battelle Memorial Institute, and later accepted a position in technical information management at Baxter Laboratories in Illinois. Brown remained in the field of information and research for the rest of her career until her retirement from Stepan Company, becoming skilled in data analysis, system design, reporting and publishing, computer operations and management. An early member of SWE, Brown has been very active in the society, serving as its president from 1961-1963. She has also been affiliated with the American Society for Information Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Society for Technical Communication. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-04-16 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Brown, Patricia L. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Society of Women Engineers Oral History Project: Profiles of SWE Pioneers Description An account of the resource Interviews of pioneering women engineers, across engineering disciplines, conducted to document the history of women in engineering from the 1930s to the present as well as the founding and development of SWE. This project was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers through generous funding provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund and managed by the Reuther Library. Both transcript and videotapes are available. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Lois Bey Oral History Description An account of the resource Lois Bey is a chemical engineer who holds the distinction of being the first woman graduate in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she graduated with honors in 1950. In 2001, Bey received an IIT Distinguished Alumni Award for this accomplishment as well as for her commitment and contributions to the chemical engineering profession. Bey's early career involved a lot of hands-on involvement in lab work as well as experience with large industrial chemical equipment. She worked for a succession of companies including Edwal Laboratories, Underwriters Laboratories and the Armour Research Institute (now IIT Research Institute) with responsibilities ranging from lab technician to assistant engineer. From 1956-1960, Bey was employed as a sales engineer for a Midwest chemical process equipment manufacturer, F.M. De Beers, Assoc. where she sold and trouble-shooted equipment. After taking a job with Baxter Laboratories in 1960, Bey earned a master's degree in Library and Information Science. Until her retirement in 1993, Bey successfully combined both her degrees toward a career as an information specialist in chemical company research & development departments, first at Baxter and later at Stepan Chemical Company. Bey joined SWE in 1953 and is a life member. She was also an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Society of Information Science. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-04-16 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Bey, Lois Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Society of Women Engineers Oral History Project: Profiles of SWE Pioneers Description An account of the resource Interviews of pioneering women engineers, across engineering disciplines, conducted to document the history of women in engineering from the 1930s to the present as well as the founding and development of SWE. This project was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers through generous funding provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund and managed by the Reuther Library. Both transcript and videotapes are available. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Eleanor Baum Oral History Description An account of the resource Dr. Eleanor Baum is Dean of Engineering at The Cooper Union in New York City and Executive Director of the Cooper Union Research Foundation. She is an electrical engineer who received her Ph.D. from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1964 after undergraduate studies at City College of New York. She earned the distinction of "first woman dean" of an engineering school in the U.S. when she was named Dean of Pratt Institute's School of Engineering in 1984. Baum joined the engineering faculty at Pratt Institute in 1965 as Assistant Professor, and previously served as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department in 1971. Baum began her career in the aerospace industry working for Sperry Rand Corporation and General Instrument Corporation. Although she soon entered academia while working on her doctorate, Baum maintained her ties to industry through consulting. Baum has played leadership roles in numerous professional associations and national engineering education initiatives. She is the first female president of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has served as president of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), has sat on the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Board, and has been involved with the Engineering Manpower Commission. Baum has also garnered many accolades for her work. She is a fellow of ABET, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, and ASEE. In 1988 she won the Emily Warren Roebling Award, presented by the National Women's Hall of Fame; in 1990 she was awarded the SWE Upward Mobility Award; and in 1996 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. Nationally recognized for her efforts in advancing engineering education and promoting engineering as a career for women and minorities, Baum has conducted national surveys of women in engineering and undergraduate women engineering students. She frequently writes, speaks, and is interviewed about engineering education issues. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-04-01 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Baum, Eleanor Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present