List of female engineers
This list of women engineers includes women who excelled in engineering .
list
A.
- Frances E. Allen (1932-2020), computer scientist; was the first woman to receive the Turing Award and was the first female IBM Fellow
- Mary Anderson (1866–1953), USA, inventor of the windshield wiper (patent 1903)
- Frances H. Arnold (* 1956), chemical engineer; received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018
- Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), English mathematician and electrical engineer
B.
- Ruzena Bajcsy (* 1933), robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, automatic recognition of anatomical information in X-ray images and the like, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Berkeley, originally from Slovakia
- Mary Barra (* 1961), electrical engineer, first woman to head an automotive company (General Motors)
- Sarah Bazeley , invented an electric tire pressure gauge in 1904
- Ruth R. Benerito , (1916-2013), Wrinkle-Free Cottons, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Bertha Benz (1849–1944), car pioneer
- Helen Augusta Blanchard (1840–1922), American inventor, numerous patents, including sewing machine with zigzag seam
- Katherine Blodgett , (1898–1979), anti-reflective coating
- Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić , (1887–1966) was the first woman to take her diploma examination at the Darmstadt Technical University in 1913 and settled in Belgrade as an architect
- Anna Helene Boyksen (1881–1920), first German student of electrical engineering, studied at the Technical University of Munich and completed her intermediate diploma in 1908 as the second best of her class, then moved to the University of Erlangen, studied economics and law and received her doctorate in 1911
- Anna Brommer , (1900–1993), first graduate engineer in geodesy at the Technical University of Stuttgart , married Haage
- Yvonne Brill , (1924–2013), rocket technology
- Martha Bürger (1903–2001), first graduate engineer in construction at the Technical University of Munich , married Schneider citizens
- Cécile Butticaz , (1884–1966), graduated in 1907 as the first female electrical engineer in Switzerland and Europe
C.
- Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), Indian-American engineer and NASA astronaut, died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
- Edith Clarke (1883-1959), American electrical engineer at General Electric, where she worked, among other things, on hydropower plants; first woman with an electrical engineering degree from MIT
- Josephine Cochrane , 1839–1913, invented the dishwasher in 1886
- Corinna Cortes , computer scientist
- Martha J. Coston (1826–1904), developed an optical signaling method for the US Navy
- Lynn Conway (* 1938), computer scientist (VLSI Design)
- Radhia Cousot (1947–2014), French computer scientist, university professor in Paris, abstract interpretation
D.
- Jan Davis (* 1953), mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut
- Dorothy E. Denning (* 1945), Computer Security
- Olive Dennis (1885-1957), American railway engineer with the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, where she especially improved their comfort, first woman to become a member of the American Railway Engineering Association
- Regina E. Dugan (* 1963), American mechanical engineer, head of a future department at Facebook
- Bonnie J. Dunbar (* 1949), engineer and materials scientist and NASA astronaut
E.
- Susan Eggers , American computer engineer, Eckert-Mauchly Award (as the first woman), development of simultaneous multithreading .
- Caroline Eichler (1808 / 09–1843, murdered), inventor of the first usable modern hand prosthesis; In 1832 she had her invention of a prosthetic leg with a knee joint patented in Prussia.
- Katrin Ellermann (* 1972), German engineer (mechanics), Graz University of Technology
- Jeri Ellsworth (* 1974), American entrepreneur, developed the C64 DTV as an autodidact
- Ilse Essers (1898–1994), aircraft designer, autobiographer and biographer; Engineering diploma in Aachen 1926, doctorate 1928/29 at the TH Berlin
- Maria Eßlinger (1913–2009), aerospace and steel construction engineer, qualified as a professor in 1953, developed methods for calculating orthotropic plates
- Deborah Estrin (* 1959), computer scientist
F.
- Edith M. Flanigen (* 1929), chemical engineer, molecular sieves made from zeolites
- Sally Floyd (1950–2019), computer scientist, among other things work on TCP , Random early detection
- Erika-Ilse Foerster (1897–1992), first graduate engineer in architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart , married Schulz-Du Bois
- Cäcilie Fröhlich (1900–1992), German-Jewish mathematician who became a professor of electrical engineering in the USA
- Marie Frommer (1890–1976), graduate engineer in architecture at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1919 first engineering doctorate at the TH Dresden
G
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), ergonomics , first woman member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was
- Kate Gleason , 1865–1933, inventor of the prefabricated house
- Adele Goldberg (* 1945), computer scientist, designed Smalltalk
- Eveline Gottzein , * 1931, aerospace engineering
- Susan L. Graham , computer scientist
- Diane Greene , computer scientist, one of the founders of VMware
- Sarah Guppy , 1770–1852, invented a better anchorage for suspension bridges, which she patented in 1811.
H
- Isolde Hausser (1889–1951) physicist who worked on electron tubes at TELEFUNKEN from 1914 to 1929, then in medical research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg (later the Max Planck Institute)
- Caroline Haslett (1895-1957), British electrical engineer, founded in 1919, the Women's Engineering Society (WES) 1924 founder of Electrical Association for Women (director until 1956), in 1930, it suggested the establishment of the German Women's engineering association to
- Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), American inventor, known as Lady Edison in the USA in the 1920s and 1930s for numerous inventions (a special sewing machine, ice cream machine, various dolls, a typewriter), which she used to market made a fortune.
- Lieselott Herforth (1916–2010), graduate engineer in physics and Dr.-Ing., Rector of the Technical University of Dresden, member of the State Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR
- Joan Higginbotham (* 1964), NASA astronaut and engineer
- Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer (* 1953), electrical engineer, cochlear implant
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), computer pioneer and early electronic computer programmer
I.
- Marsha Ivins (* 1951), aircraft engineer and NASA astronaut
J
- Mary Jackson (1921-2005), black American engineer, best known for the film Hidden Figures (2016)
- Kitty Joyner (1916–1993), electrical engineer, first female engineer at NACA / NASA (from 1939)
K
- Dina Katabi (* 1971), originally Syrian, professor at MIT, computer scientist, especially wireless networks
- Janet L. Kavandi (* 1959), NASA astronaut and chemical engineer
- Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla , * 1966, materials scientist, mechanical engineer, professor at the Ruhr University Bochum , scientific director of the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy GmbH
- Mary Dixon Kies (1752–1837), first woman in the US to apply for a patent (a method of weaving straw with other fibers, especially in hats)
- Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914), paper bag machine
- Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff , 1877–1959, Germany's first female engineer (1911). She studied architecture.
- Ilse Knott-ter Meer , 1899–1996, one of the first German female engineers (1924 Maschinenbau TH München)
- Sabine Kunst , * 1954, Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg
- Irena Kuzora-Ziarno (1928–2015), PhD in electrical engineering, professor of theoretical electrical engineering at the Technical University of Rzeszów
- Stephanie Kwolek , (1923–2014), chemical engineer, inventor of Kevlar
L.
Barbara Liskov at OOPSLA 2009
- Suzanne Lacasse , (* 1948), civil engineer in geotechnical engineering
- Monica S. Lam , computer scientist, Prof. in Stanford, compiler technology
- Hedy Lamarr , (1914–2000) actress and inventor of a frequency scrambling process during World War II
- Susan Landau , (* 1954) computer scientist
- Nancy Leveson , computer scientist, systems engineer and expert on security issues, for example in aerospace, Prof. at MIT
- Barbara Liskov , (* 1939) computer scientist, Turing Prize
- Irmgard Lotz , (1903–1974), aerodynamicist and control technician (autopilot), first professor in engineering in the USA, married Flügge-Lotz
- Ada Lovelace , (1815-1852), first female programmer
M.
- Sandra Magnus (* 1964), aircraft engineer at McDonnell Douglas and NASA astronaut
- Marissa Mayer (* 1975), computer scientist and manager, was Google Spokesperson and has been CEO of Yahoo since 2012
- Elisabeth Merell , constructed an electrically operated washing machine in 1859
- Marion Merklein , * 1973, forming technology / manufacturing technology , Leibniz Prize
N
- Karen Nyberg (* 1969), mechanical engineer, NASA astronaut
O
- Ellen Ochoa (* 1958), electrical and aerospace engineer, NASA astronaut
P
- Katharina Paulus , (1868–1935), received a Swiss patent in 1921 for the parachute package she had developed
- Julie Payette (* 1963), engineer at IBM, Canadian astronaut
- Radia Perlman (* 1951), computer scientist, computer networks, worked for DEC and Intel
- Alice Perry (1885–1969), civil engineer, graduated in 1906, making it the first woman in Europe to graduate as an engineer from a university.
- Elisabeth Perryman , invented the first street and wall lamp in 1809
- Rosalind Picard (* 1962), electrical engineer, research in the fields of portable computers and "Affective Computing"
R.
- Stefanie Reese , Head of the Chair and Institute for Applied Mechanics at RWTH Aachen
- Judith Resnik (1949–1986), electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, died in the Challenger disaster
- Heike Riel , (* 1971), IBM Fellow
- Ira Rischowski (1899–1989), one of the first female electrical engineers in Germany (studied at TH Darmstadt, then TH Breslau), in exile in England from 1936 during the Nazi era for political reasons and because of the Jewish faith of her parents
- Ida Rhodes (1900–1986), American software pioneer
- Emily Warren Roebling (1843-1903), took over after the paralysis of her husband Washington Augustus Roebling his duties in supervising the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
- Iris Runge (1888–1966), mathematician who worked on electron tubes at OSRAM and TELEFUNKEN
- Daniela Rus , (* 1963), computer scientist, robotics, first director of CSAIL
S.
- Jutta Saatweber (* 1938), electrical engineer , Quality Function Deployment
- Irene Sänger-Bredt (1911–1983), physicist & aerospace engineer, developed the first concept of a space glider together with her husband
- Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), computer scientist, was a co-developer of Cobol and developed Formac at IBM
- Melitta Schiller (1903–1945), German engineer and aviator, married Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg
- Doris Schmitt-Landsiedel (* 1952), full professor at the chair for technical electronics at the Technical University of Munich
- Thekla Schild (1890–1991), one of the first German female engineers in architecture
- Erna Schneider Hoover (* 1926), Bell Labs, computer telephone switching, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Glenda Schroeder , first Unix shell implementation.
- Helga Schuchardt (* 1939), engineer for technical physics, first worked for Deutsche Lufthansa, then in politics
- Edith Margarethe Schulze , first graduate of architecture from the TH Braunschweig (1919)
- Nicole P. Scott (* 1962), aircraft engineer, NASA astronaut
- Elisabeth Seitz , (1898–1995), first graduate engineer in technical physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart , married Kurz
- Steve Shirley (* 1933), British software entrepreneur of German origin
- Karen Spärck Jones (1935–2007), British computer scientist
- Sarah Springman (* 1956), British civil engineer (geotechnical engineering) and triathlete, professor at ETH Zurich
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (1883–1971), civil engineer, suffragette and real estate developer in New York, the first woman to be a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the first woman to graduate from Cornell University in 1905 as a civil engineer
- Kira Stein (* 1952), former board member of the German Women's Council
- Elsbeth Steinheil (1893–1955), first German graduate engineer in mechanical engineering, graduate of the Technical University of Munich , married Franz
T
- Esther Takeuchi (nee Sans), materials science, chemical engineer, Prof. Stony Brook, senior scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, for example batteries, holds over 150 US patents and thus holds a leading position as a woman in the USA.
- Audrey Tang (* 1981), Taiwanese programmer ( Pugs )
- Mária Telkes (1900–1995), Hungarian-American physicist and chemist, worked at MIT and in Texas, solar energy technology, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Valentina Tereschkowa (* 1937), Soviet space engineer and cosmonaut, first woman in space
U
- Helene Uhlig , (1897–1958), first graduate engineer in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart , married Merkle
- Dana Ulery (* 1938), American, first female engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Maria-Christine von Urach , (1933–1990), mechanical engineer, one of the first female engineers at Daimler-Benz
V
- Wilhelmine Vogler completed her mechanical engineering studies at the Technical University of Munich in 1924 together with Ilse Ter Meer (see Knott-ter-Meer) .
- Janice E. Voss (1956–2012), aircraft and space engineer and NASA astronaut
W.
- Johanna Weber (1910-2014), aeronautical engineer, contributed mathematical basis for design and flight characteristics of the Concorde at
- Marion Weissenberger-Eibl , (* 1966), Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)
- Sophie Wilson , (* 1957), computer scientist
- Stephanie Wilson (* 1966), aerospace engineer (including Galileo at the Jet Propulsion Lab) and NASA astronaut
Z
- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu , (1887–1973), chemical engineer, inventor and advocate of international disarmament, who graduated from the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, today's TU Berlin , with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1912 ; one of the first qualified female engineers in Europe (see the first qualified female electrical engineer: Cécile Butticaz ).
See also
literature
- Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, Karin Zachmann (Eds.): Crossing boundaries, building bridges. Comparing the history of women engineers, 1870s-1990s, Routledge 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e http://www.think-ing.de/girls-ing/magazin/erfinderinnen-memory
- ↑ a b c d Petra Mayerhofer: "There are people who imagine a very strange monster under a student." The beginnings of women's studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart. In: Gabriele Hardtmann / Nicola Hille (ed.): The beginnings of women's studies in Württemberg. First female graduates from the TH Stuttgart. Steiner, Stuttgart, 2014. pp. 39–93.
- ↑ a b c Margot Fuchs: Like fathers like daughters. Studied women at the Technical University of Munich from 1899–1970. FAKTUM Vol. 7. Technical University of Munich, Munich, 1994.
- ↑ a b c d e f TOP25: The 25 most influential women engineers in Germany , German Association of Women Engineers 2011
- ↑ Renate Strohmeier: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe. From antiquity to the 20th century. German, Thun, 1998.