Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts

• Main Author: Tietjen, Jill S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Women in Engineering and Science,
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Popular works.; Engineering > Vocational guidance.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.; History of Science.; Popular Science, general.

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world’s recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse arenas encompassed by the word ‘engineering’ and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Early Days of Engineering
• Women Can be Engineers, Too!
• War's Unintended Consequences
• Suburbia and Sputnik
• Bridges to the Future
• Bridges to the Future.