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). Maryly Peck Oral History Description An account of the resource Maryly Van Leer Peck is President Emeritus of Polk Community College, where in 1982 she served as its first woman president, and consequently the first woman president of a Florida institution of higher learning. Throughout her over 45-year career, Dr. Peck established many other firsts for women in engineering. In 1951 Dr. Peck was the first woman to graduate with a degree in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University. She went on to also become the first woman to receive a M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida. Peck began her career in the aerospace industry as a research engineer, working for the Washington, D.C. Naval Research Laboratory and Rocketdyne Corporation in California. She was also very early on involved in academia, teaching courses in engineering, chemistry, and math at various southern U.S. colleges. Peck accomplished all of this while working on her Ph.D., raising four children, and at the same time serving as SWE's national vice president. Before her tenure in Florida's higher education system, Dr. Peck lived on the island of Guam for 11 years. There, she became the first woman dean of the College of Business and Applied Technology at the University of Guam and founder and dean of what is now the Community College of Guam. A long-time SWE member, Peck has been featured in Life Magazine, named Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Florida in 1991, and received recognition and awards for her work in the advancement and awareness of engineering as a profession for women. She currently serves on the Chemical Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Florida. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-06-13 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Peck, Maryly Van Leer Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present