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). Betty Preece Oral History Description An account of the resource Betty Preece is a distinguished secondary and college educator in science, math, and engineering. In 1947 she was the first female electrical engineering graduate of the University of Kentucky and upon graduation worked as an engineer for General Electric and then as a project engineer/section chief of surveillance systems for the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral during the early years of the aerospace program. Preece went on to serve as editor of the Indian River Engineer for the Institute of Radio Engineers in the early 1960s and thereafter worked in academia, upon earning a M.S. in Science Education. She served simultaneously as a high school physics teacher and adjunct faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology for over 20 years. An early SWE member and a longstanding member of several professional organizations, Preece has been actively involved in career guidance for women engineers and scientists, leading workshops on the local, state, national, and international levels since 1965. She was a member of the Working Panel of Women as Engineering Technicians, Office of Emergency Planning, Office of the President of the United States from 1962-64; and selected to the Florida Advisory Council for Science Education in 1986 in recognition of her work in science education. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2003-06-07 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Preece, Betty Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Lauren Kata Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) 1930’s-present