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Edith Clarke
first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States; first female professor of electrical engineering in the country.
Emily Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling was an engineer known for her contribution to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease. Her husband was a civil engineer and the chief engineer during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Martha Coston
Martha Jane Coston was an inventor and businesswoman best known for her invention of the Coston flare, a device for signaling at sea.
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Lillian Gilbreth
Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living."
Stephanie Kwolek
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. She was of Polish heritage and her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness: poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide.
Mary Anderson
Mary Elizabeth Anderson was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper.
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Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, was an Austrian-American actress, inventor, and film producer. She was part of 30 films in an acting career spanning 28 years, and co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
Christina Koch
Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. She received Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Katie Weimer
Katie, who has been involved in 3D printing for almost a decade, aims to revolutionize Healthcare by combining proprietary and powerful workflows in a "digital thread" with the ability to create templates, guides, instruments and even implants using 3D printing technologies.
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Limor Fried
Limor Fried is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries.
Evelyn Wang
Evelyn N. Wang is a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering, director of the Device Research Laboratory, and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant is an African American electrical engineer who worked in the biotechnology field at Genentech, Novartis Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Merck. In 2011, Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a training course that teaches basic programming concepts to black girls who are underrepresented in technology careers.
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Gwynne Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth. As of 2020, she is listed as the 55th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Danielle Merfeld
Merfeld received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and Ph. ... in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. She is passionate about the development and promotion of talented women, and is the co-leader of GE's global Women's Network.
Stephanie Kwolek
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar.She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness: poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide.