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). Ann Fletcher Oral History Description An account of the resource Ann Fletcher chose engineering as a second career option, after teaching music for nearly ten years. Her career switch is a good example of the new opportunities that opened up to women as a result of WWII. She attended Wayne State University's College of Engineering from 1942-44, joining Bendix Aviation Corporation Research Labs in 1943 as a patent draftsman. In 1947 Fletcher began work as an industrial illustrator and patent draftsman at Ford Motor Company where she worked for 21 years. As the only industrial illustrator at Ford, she worked closely with inventors to produce illustrations for product, design, chemical, and metallurgical inventions, among others. Her last position before retiring in 1978 was as Technical Assistant to Chief Engineer at the Shatterproof Glass Corporation. Her assignment entailed duties from various technical analyses to reports and surveys for the Environmental Protection Agency. An early member of SWE, Fletcher experienced several "firsts" in her profession. It was during her position at Shatterproof that she became one of two women in the Society of Engineering Illustrators, serving two terms as president. She also became the first woman elected as fellow of the Engineering Society of Detroit and later to its board of directors. Fletcher received statewide recognition when in 1975 she was appointed to the Michigan State Registration Board of Professional Community Planners, the first woman to assume that responsibility. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-04-04 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Fletcher, Ann O. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present