Beatrice Hicks

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Beatrice Alice Hicks ( 1919 - 1979 ) was an American engineer . She was the first female engineer to be hired by Western Electric and later co-founded and first president of the Society of Women Engineers .

Career

Beatrice Hicks studied chemical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology . After completing her bachelor's degree in 1939, she stayed there for three years as a research assistant. With the beginning of the Second World War , more women were needed in professions that had previously been practiced almost exclusively by men, which opened up new opportunities for Beatrice Hicks and her colleagues. In 1942, Beatrice Hicks became the first female engineer at Western Electric , a subsidiary of Bell Laboratories (older name: Bell Telephone). In 1949 she graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a master's degree in physics.

In 2017 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame .

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  1. ↑ a b c Beatrice Alice Hicks . In: IEEE Global History Network . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, Beatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hicks, Beatrice Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
DATE OF DEATH 1979