Judith Love Cohen

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Judith Love Cohen (born August 16, 1933 in Brooklyn , New York ; died July 25, 2016 ) was an American aerospace engineer and author. Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the LGM-30 Minuteman rocket, the ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope , the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, and the Apollo program .

After her retirement, she and her husband David Katz founded the Cascade Pass publishing company for books and other learning media for children, especially girls, where she published over 20 titles by the time she died.

Childhood and youth

Judith Cohen was born in Brooklyn , New York in 1933 to Sarah (nee Roisman) and Morris Bernard Cohen. She was often the only woman in her math classes and initially wanted to become a math teacher. At the age of 19, she was simultaneously studying engineering at college and dancing ballet at the Metropolitan Opera.

education

Judith Cohen initially received a scholarship from Brooklyn College to study mathematics, but switched to engineering. After two years of college, she married and moved to California, where she worked as a junior engineer for North American Aviation . In the evenings she attended courses at the University of Southern California . According to her own statement, she never met another engineering student in her courses during her bachelor's degree or during her master's degree. Cohen earned both a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957 and a Master of Science degree from USC's Viterbi School of Engineering in 1962 and has remained associated with the university as an advisory member of the Aerospace Engineering Board. In 1982 she completed the Engineering Executive Program at the University of California .

job

Cohen's engineering career began in 1952 when she was a junior engineer with North American Aviation . After graduating from the Viterbi School of Engineering in 1957, she began her work at Space Technology Laboratories , which later joined TRW Inc. ( Northrop Grumman from 2002 ), where she stayed until her retirement in 1990.

In 1990, after retiring from engineering, Cohen founded Cascade Pass with her third husband, David Katz . They founded two series of books there, the first called “ You Can Can Be a Woman… ” was aimed particularly at young girls and was intended to encourage them to take up careers in the natural sciences and engineering. The second Green series was designed to teach children how to treat the environment positively. The publisher has so far (as of the end of 2018) sold more than 100,000 books from both series; individual volumes have been translated into Spanish. Her publishing house also published the book Women of Apollo by Robyn C. Friend in 2006 , which contains short biographies of four women scientists who were significantly involved in the Apollo mission, among them Judith Love Cohen.

In May 2014, Cohen received the Distinguished Literary Contributions Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her literary contribution to getting children excited about STEM subjects .

Private life

Judith Cohen was the mother of four children, including engineer Neil Siegel and actor Jack Black .

Works (selection)

  • Judith Love Cohen: You Can Be a Woman Engineer . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 1991, ISBN 978-1-880599-50-1 (English).
  • Andrea Mia Ghez, Judith Love Cohen: You Can Be a Woman Astronomer . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 1995, ISBN 978-1-880599-17-4 (English).
  • Patricia Moore, Judith Love Cohen: You Can Be a Woman Chemist . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 2005, ISBN 978-1-880599-71-6 (English).
  • Paula Weinstein, Maureen Gosling: You Can Be a Woman Movie Maker . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 2003, ISBN 978-1-880599-63-1 (English).
  • Sharon Roth Franks, Judith Love Cohen: You Can Be a Woman Oceanographer . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 1994, ISBN 978-1-880599-14-3 (English).
  • Tisha Venturini, Judith Love Cohen: You Can Be a Woman Soccer Player . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 2000, ISBN 978-1-880599-48-8 (English).
  • Robyn C. Friend, Judith Love Cohen: A Clean Earth: The Geothermal Story . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 2011 (English).
  • Robyn C. Friend, Judith Love Cohen: A Clean Planet: The Solar Power Story . Cascade Pass, Marina Del Rey 2010, ISBN 978-1-880599-86-0 (English).

literature

  • Katianne Williams: Blazing Their Own Trails . The Engineering Passion of Judith Cohen and Neil Siegel. In: IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine . tape 6 , no. 1 , August 5, 2012, p. 16–20 , doi : 10.1109 / mwie.2012.2189337 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robyn C. Friend: The Women of Apollo . The Stories of Judith Cohen, Ann Dickson, Ann Maybury, and Bobbie Johnson, Four Remarkable Women Who Helped Put the First Man on the Moon. Ed .: Lee Rathbone. Cascade Pass, Inc., Marina Del Rey 2006, ISBN 1-880599-79-1 (English).
  2. ^ A b c Judith Love Cohen, BSEE '57, MSEE '62 (= University of Southern California [Hrsg.]: USC Engineer. A Journal for Alumni & Friends USC Viterbi School of Engineering . Volume 2 ). tape 2 , 2004, p. 39 (English, online [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Who's who in the West . Marquis-Who's Who, 1982, ISBN 0-8379-0918-X , pp. 142 .
  4. ^ A b c Renee Tawa: Women in the Workplace. Judith Love Cohen: Engineering a Change: A Hubble telescope designer aims to rewrite the book on careers for girls with a series of stories about women in math and science. In: Los Angeles Times . September 6, 1999, archived from the original on July 14, 2015 ; accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ A b c d e Neil Siegel: In memory of Judith Love Cohen. Mother, wife, friend, author, engineer. Alumna, BS EE '57, MS EE '62, played a key role in bringing Apollo 13 astronauts home. In: USC Viterbi School of Engineering. July 29, 2016, accessed December 4, 2018 .
  6. ^ Sandra Coopersmith: Judith Love Cohen. August 16, 1933 - July 25, 2016. In: Culver City Observer. August 4, 2016, accessed December 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Judith Love
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer, publisher, and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2016