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). Isabelle French & Elaine Pitts Oral History Description An account of the resource The daughter of a contractor, Isabelle French became interested in engineering at a young age. She graduated in 1944 from Tri-State College with a degree in radio engineering, the first woman at Tri-State to do so. She received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater in 1966. French began her career in 1944 working on the engineering and development of radar tubes at Sylvania in Massachusetts. She remained there until 1952 and held held a similar position at Capehart-Farnsworth in Indiana for another two years. In 1954 she joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she remained until her retirement more than 40 years later. French has been an active member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1951 and has attended nearly every national conference. In addition to serving as SWE President from 1964-1966, she has also served as the chairman or president of several sections, national secretary and treasurer, and has sat on the national executive committee. French was elected to the SWE College of Fellows in 1981. After studying industrial engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology and studying design at the Art Institute in Chicago, in 1943 Elaine Pitts applied to be a “secretary willing to be trained as a packaging engineer” at Aldens, Inc. in Chicago. In 1945 Pitts joined Spiegel, Inc. in Chicago as a senior packaging engineer, where she remained until 1952. The following year she began a long career at the Sperry and Hutchinson Company, where she organized and installed its packaging department. In 1970 she was appointed the Vice President of Corporate Relations. Nine years later she and a friend moved to California to open their own packaging company, Dalton/ Pitts Associates. A member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1964, Pitts has served on its Executive Board and was elected to the College of Fellows in 1981. She is a past president of the American Women in Radio and Television and of Women Executives in Public Relations. A Fellow of the Society of Packaging and Handling Engineers, she was the first woman to serve as that organization's Chairman of the Board. 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 French, Isabelle; Pitts, Elaine Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present