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 Graham Oral History Description An account of the resource Lois Graham was an engineering educator for 36 years during a time when women were not even allowed as engineering students in many schools. She was the first woman to graduate in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1945; the first to receive a M.S.M.E. from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); and the first to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in the country. Upon graduating from RPI Graham went to work for the Carrier Corporation as a test engineer. After 18 months she returned to academia for a graduate assistantship at IIT, where she would spend her entire teaching career. When she became an instructor in 1949 she was the first woman faculty member in the mechanical engineering department. When Graham became full professor in 1975 she was one of but a few woman in the country with that rank. In addition to instruction in such subjects as aeronautics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer, Graham served as Assistant Dept. Chair and briefly as Acting Dept. Chair. She was also appointed Assistant Director for Engineering and Science in 1974 and Program Center Director in 1977 of the Education and Experience in Engineering (E3) Program, a multidisciplinary, project-based curriculum program. Graham was also actively involved in recruiting minority students. She served as Chairman of the Women's Engineering Program; as Program Coordinator of the Early Identification Spring Program; Director of the Minorities in Engineering Program, an innovative program that received national recognition; and as Director of Motivation and Support for the Greater Chicago Area Program for increasing Minorities in Engineering by working with high school students. Graham's many professional affiliations include SWE, of which she is a fellow and past president (1955-56), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education. She has earned several honors and has published extensively in engineering, scientific, educational, and management subjects. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-06-06 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Graham, Lois Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present