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). Mary McCarthy Oral History Description An account of the resource Mary McCarthy was a freshman studying communications technology at an Oklahoma junior college when the United States entered the Second World War. She joined the Civil Service shortly after and spent the war years repairing damaged planes and testing aviation communications equipment in San Antonio and Hawaii. After the war ended she got married, adopted a child, and did not return to school or work for another 20 years. In 1968, at the age of 45, McCarthy began the transition from “kitcheneering to engineering.” She originally enrolled in San Francisco City College so that she could help her daughter with her homework, but in 1973 McCarthy transferred to the University of California, Berkley to pursue engineering. She completed her degrees in electrical engineering and material science in 1976 and was hired by Lockheed as a reliability engineer to work on parts control and standardization. During her career at Lockheed she worked on military and aerospace projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope and became the chairperson of the Parts Control Board. She retired from Lockheed in 2005. McCarthy is a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers. She has served as the president of the Texas and the Santa Clara Valley sections and as the national Vice President of Student Services. In addition to her professional achievements she has contributed to the success of others by giving presentations and developing career guidance programs with SWE, the American Association of University Women, the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, the Girl Scouts, and 4-H. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2006-03-14 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed McCarthy, Mary Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Deborah Rice Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930s - 2000s Civil Service