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 ...

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 ...

As millions of students of all ages return to school this fall, they are making important choices that have a strong influence on their eventual career path – which college majors to pursue, which ...

Engineering in the United States. 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 ...

Growing up as a woman interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Patricia Garcia, a mechanical engineering major in the College of Engineering & Computing, faced the same question ...

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 ...

Computer screens over construction sites, that’s the clear choice of Maharashtra’s female engineering students this year.

Coming from a small school district in Ohio where few girls took part in intensive mathematics or science classes, Callie Zawaski was an outlier. “I may have been the only person in my grade who was ...

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 ...