{"id":32043,"date":"2021-02-22T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digileaders.com\/?p=32043"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:49:40","slug":"celebrating-female-leadership-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digileaders.com\/celebrating-female-leadership-in-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating female leadership in engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields are pioneers of innovation, a fact mad<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e possible by the brilliant minds driving research, discovery, and invention therein. Many crucial advancements in STEM have been made by intrepid female engineers and scientists, which is a wonderful thing to celebrate this February 25th on<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.org\/our-programs\/girl-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The awareness day is part of Engineers Week, a seven-day event led by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, or &#8220;Girl Day&#8221;, is a worldwide campaign aimed at introducing young women to the STEM fields. This is done by engineers, educators, and volunteers who facilitate fun engineering activities for girls to participate them in. This can encourage their developing interest in STEM and help them to become more confident problem-solvers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world as we know it today wouldn&#8217;t be the same without<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wetheparents.org\/inspiring-engineering-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">female engineers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ada Lovelace<\/strong>, who is remembered as one of the first computer programmers as well as the creator of the first algorithm, a program intended to be carried out by a machine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hedy Lamarr<\/strong>, an Austrian actress equally renowned for her contributions to the development of frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology which was used to stymie the firing of Nazi torpedoes during World War 2<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Nora Stanton Barney<\/strong>, who paved the way for future females in engineering as the first female engineering graduate of Cornell University as well as the first female member of the American Society of Civil Engineers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. Patricia Bath<\/strong>, an early pioneer of vision-saving laser cataract surgery as well as the first female African-American staff surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Alice Parker<\/strong>, an African American female inventor who filed a patent for a gas-powered form of central heating that informed the way today&#8217;s central heating systems function; her filing pre-dated both the Civil Rights and Women&#8217;s Liberation movements<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The list of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/membership\/women\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">female scientists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, engineers, and innovators is long. To meet more women who&#8217;ve changed our world, take a look at this infographic from We The Parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Originally <a href=\"https:\/\/wetheparents.org\/inspiring-engineering-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"btn-container\"><a class=\"btn btn-md btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/digileaders.com\/insights\/\">More thought leadership <i class=\"far fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields are pioneers of innovation, a fact made possible by the brilliant minds driving research, discovery, and invention therein. 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