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). Irene Peden Oral History Description An account of the resource Dr. Irene Peden is Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. She joined the faculty in 1962 and served terms as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Associate Chairman of the EE Dept., in addition to her teaching and research. She has long been an outspoken advocate for women in engineering and science. Her efforts lead to the #1 U.S. ranking of UW in the 1990s for number of women faculty in an electrical engineering department. A graduate of electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1947, Peden earned both a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Following her graduate studies Peden began as Assistant Professor at UW, taking time off from the university in the early 1990s to serve two years as Director of the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests cover several fields: applied electromagnetics, radio science, antennas and subsurface remote sensing, and she has published widely on these subjects. In 1970, in pursuit of her research, Peden became the first American woman engineer or scientist to conduct field research in the Antarctic interior. In addition to being a SWE Fellow, Peden is a Fellow in the IEEE, holding a number of positions in that organization. She has served as board member and chair of several science and engineering associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Engineering Accreditation Commission, as well as several university engineering departments. Among her many honors, she was the National Science Foundation's 1993 Engineer of the Year and one of 40 inductees to the ASEE Engineering Educators Hall of Fame, as well as the recipient of several IEEE awards and SWE's Achievement Award (1973). Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2002-03-02 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Peden, Irene Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present