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). Arminta Harness Oral History Description An account of the resource Lt. Col. Arminta Harness blazed a trail for women engineers in the Armed Forces during her 24 year career in the U.S. Air Force. Graduating with an aeronautical engineering degree from the University of Southern California in 1955, she became the Air Force's first woman engineer, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Her assignments varied in responsibility from designing intelligence-gathering equipment for the U-2 aircraft to providing management direction for the $2 billion Space and Missile Systems Organization budget. As a lieutenant assigned to the Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, she was the first woman on orders as a test engineer during flight testing of experimental equipment, which she designed. In 1963 Harness was assigned to work on the Gemini manned space program at Air Force Space Systems. As a Major, she served as Deputy Chief of Engineering, and later, as Lieutenant Colonel, as Chief of Program Control for the $80 million Gemini Target Vehicle Program the unmanned spacecraft used as a docking target by the Gemini astronauts in space. It was during this assignment that she became the first woman to receive the specialty rating of Staff Development Engineer and the first woman to receive both Senior and Master Missileman Badges. Harness' military awards include the National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Joint Services Commendation Medal, and Air force Meritorious Service Medal. During her service, she was also recognized as a Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering and received their 1971 Engineering Achievement Merit Award. Harness joined Westinghouse Hanford Company in 1974 following retirement from military service. In her five years with the company, she was Technical Assistant to the company president and Manager of Laboratory Planning for their nuclear development lab. A Fellow Life Member of SWE, Harness served as its president from 1976 - 1978 and in many other leadership roles on the local and national level. Following her second retirement in 1979, Harness remained active in SWE. She is the designer of the SWE's Resnik Challenger Medal, given upon merit, to an engineer whose contributions have broadened the frontiers of space exploration. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-05-01 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Harness, Arminta Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present