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