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). Alva Matthews Oral History Description An account of the resource During her engineering career, Dr. Alva Matthews conducted original research, development studies, and consultation services in a variety of fields. She is best known for her significant contributions to the field of engineering mechanics and applied mathematics in the areas of shock analysis, elasticity and structural design, for which she won the SWE Achievement Award in 1971. In addition to her accomplishments in industry, Dr. Matthews also taught for many years at the university level. Matthews received her education at Middlebury and Barnard Colleges, earning a B.S. and M.S. in Science, and at Columbia University, earning a PhD. in Engineering Science. While an undergraduate in the 1950s, she worked as an engineer at a conduit construction firm and later as a design and research engineer for a prestigious firm during her graduate years. As a graduate student Matthews taught civil engineering at Columbia University, becoming their first woman engineering instructor. She continued to lecture at Columbia, the University of Rochester, and Swarthmore College after she received her doctorate, and became an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences at the University of Rochester. As a research engineer and consultant for Rochester Applied Science Associates and Paul Weidlinger Consulting Engineer, Matthews carried out fundamental research on the mechanical behavior of materials and wave propagation in solids, extending to nuclear weapons effects on structures. Other areas of effort include the development and adaptation of large computer codes, structural design of thin shell concrete, application of Potential Theory to underwater acoustics, and computer programming in the development of the Telstar tracking antenna and of helicopter blade design. Her publications have won recognition as pioneering efforts in the area of wave propagation and vibrations in elastic media. Matthews has held a number of offices in SWE, was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the NY State Society of Professional Engineers, and served on the board of directors of the Engineers Joint Council from 1964-65. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-05-14 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Matthews, Alva Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present