Extraordinary Women Engineers
Countless women have made extraordinary contributions to our world and the engineering profession. Each has an extraordinary story to tell. Listed here are just a few notable women engineers. If you know a woman engineer whose story should be considered for inclusion in the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project, or you have a story to share about one of these remarkable women, please e-mail info@engineeringwomen.org.| Degree/Discipline | Name |
|---|---|
| Aeronautical Engineering | Isabel Abel |
| Yvonne C. Brill | |
| Jacqueline Cochran | |
| Missy Cummings | |
| Nancy J Currie | |
| Suzanna Darcy | |
| Amelia Earhart | |
| M. Elsa Gardner | |
| Janet Guthrie | |
| Arminta J. Harness | |
| Barbara Crawford Johnson | |
| Svetlana Savitskaya | |
| Katherine Stinson | |
| Valentina Tereshkova | |
| Sheila Widnal | |
| Architectural Engineering | Sophia Hayden Bennett |
| Margaret Rothman | |
| Automotive Engineering | Ethel H. Bailey |
| Rodica Baranescu | |
| Sandra Bouckley | |
| Marie E. Luhring | |
| Roberta Nichols | |
| Nellie Scott Rogers | |
| Building Engineering | Natalie Adelman |
| Ceramic Engineering | Katherine T. Faber |
| Carolyn Lindquist | |
| Chemical Engineering | Patricia L. Brown |
| Dianne Dorland | |
| Nancy D. Fitzroy | |
| Deborah Grubbe | |
| Dorothy Hall | |
| Julia Brainerd Hall | |
| Beatrice A. Hicks | |
| Mae Jemison | |
| Marshall Keiser | |
| Mary Ellen Latschar | |
| Ivy M. Parker | |
| Maryly Van Leer Peck | |
| Mary Engle Pennington | |
| Mildred Pfister | |
| Dorothy Quiggle | |
| Ellen Swallow Richards | |
| Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau | |
| Dorothy M. Simon | |
| Rebecca Sparling | |
| Martha B.J. Thomas | |
| Civil Engineering | Janet Adams |
| Margaret Arronet | |
| Frankie Barnett | |
| Sandra Begay-Cambell | |
| Nora Stanton Blatch | |
| Elizabeth Bragg | |
| Florence Caldwell | |
| Adelaide Cooper | |
| Lois L. Cooper | |
| Iris Cummins | |
| Olive W. Dennis | |
| Elsie Eaves | |
| Barbara Featherston | |
| Barbara Fox | |
| Minette Ethelma Frankenberger | |
| Patricia D. Galloway | |
| Alice C. Goff | |
| Ruth V. Gordon | |
| Ethlyn Ann Hansen | |
| Sophie Hutson | |
| Mary Hutson | |
| Gloria J. Jeff | |
| Marilyn Jorgenson | |
| Maria Lehman | |
| Carrie McElwein | |
| Elizabeth Jackson McLean | |
| Mary Thelma Miller | |
| Julia Morgan | |
| Loring Nicholson | |
| Judith Nitsch | |
| Mildred Paret | |
| Marion Sara Parker | |
| Helen Joyce Peters | |
| Margaret S. Peterson | |
| Hazel Irene Quick | |
| Jane Rider | |
| Emily Warren Roebling | |
| Kristy Schloss | |
| Marlene Schmidt | |
| JoAnn Silverstein | |
| Mary Olga Soroka | |
| Martha Stevens | |
| Gladys Tapman | |
| Lenore J Traver | |
| Norine M. Walker | |
| Mary Ann Zimmerman | |
| Computer Science | Aileen Cavanagh |
| Grace Murray Hopper | |
| Edith W. Martin | |
| Construction | Linda G. Alvarado |
| Sandi Rhys Jones | |
| Electrical Engineering | Harriet Whitney Allen |
| Eleanor Baum | |
| Cheryl Bergman | |
| Helen Williams Hardy Blackwell | |
| Edith Clarke | |
| Mildred Dresselhaus | |
| Hilda Counts Edgecomb | |
| Thelma Estrin | |
| Elsie Gregory MacGill | |
| Lottye E Miner | |
| Irene C. Peden | |
| Judith A. Resnik | |
| Mabel MacFerran Rockwell | |
| Martha Sloan | |
| Helen Smith | |
| J. Cicely Thompson | |
| Jill Tietjen | |
| Ruthie Lyle | |
| Electrochemical engineering | Florence Fogler Buckland |
| Martha E. Munzer | |
| Engineering | Jeanne Bruck |
| Alice Gertrude Bryant | |
| Irmgard Flugge-Lotz | |
| Edith Julia Griswald | |
| Anne Marselis | |
| Elaine R. Pitts | |
| Margie Smith | |
| Engineering Mechanics | Alva Tanya Matthews |
| Engineering Operations | Terri Helmlinger |
| Geotechnical Engineering | Priscilla Nelson |
| Heating and Ventilating Engineering | Olive E. Frank |
| Helen Innes | |
| Ruth Shafer | |
| Industrial engineering | Lillian Moller Gilbreth |
| Shulamith Koenig | |
| Eva Ky Lee | |
| Kristin Stoehr Pereira | |
| Diane Schaub | |
| Erin Wallace | |
| Manufacturing Engineering | F. Suzanne Jenniches |
| Materials Engineering | Bonnie Dunbar |
| Mechanical Engineering | Amy Alving |
| Emma Barth | |
| Willa B. Brown Chappell | |
| Susan M. Cischke | |
| Yvonne Y. Clark | |
| Catherine Cleveland | |
| Kate Gleason | |
| Margaret Ingels | |
| Lucille Kaufman | |
| Mary E. Lacey | |
| Bertha Lamme | |
| Ada I. Pressman | |
| Marie Reith | |
| Sue Skemp | |
| Mining/ Metallurgical Engineering | Janet Z. Briggs |
| Esther Hawley Williams | |
| Anna Clyde Fraker | |
| Emily Hahn | |
| Edith Paula Chartkoff Meyer | |
| Lena Allen Stoiber | |
| Nuclear Engineering | Patricia L. Eng |
| Radio Engineering | Isabelle F. French |
