Bertha Lamme was the first female mechanical engineering graduate from the Ohio State University and the first woman to work in the industry at Westinghouse from 1893 to 1905. In 1893, Bertha Lamme ...

Co-edited by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) faculty Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Laura Shackelford, Ph.D., Professor of English, Women in Mechanical ...

In the 1990 book “Women of Science: Righting the Record,” Clark County’s Bertha Lamme is the first person listed under the heading “Some More Obscure Early Women Engineers.” The book clearly intends ...

Engineering in the U.S. has long been — and continues to be — a male-dominated profession. Fifty years ago, it looked like that might change. In 1970, the percentage of women majoring in engineering ...

Carolyn Conner Seepersad receives funding from the National Science Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, America Makes, DARPA, and the Cameron Corporation. These opinions and findings are her own ...

Alicia Boler-Davis had been thriving at General Motors for more than 15 years when she faced her most daunting challenge yet: manage an assembly plant and work as vehicle line director and chief ...

A Ghanaian mechanical engineer is breaking new ground with her research on optimised desiccant systems powered by machine learning, a technology aimed at  improving energy efficiency and driving low-c ...

The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences is committed to increasing the recruitment and retention of women because we know that diversity adds value to our learning community, culture, ...

Ida Habtemichael understands she’s a statistical rarity. This story also appeared in The Investigative Reporting Workshop Black, female mechanical engineers make up less than 2 percent of the ...