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CONFERENCE NEWS

W H A T WOMEN D O I N ENGINEERING

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June 15-21 j 1964.

SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS The annual award of the Lillian Moller Gilbreth Scholarship by the Society of Women Engineers to an outstanding woman student of engineering has been won by:

1964 Valerie R. Peterson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nuclear Engineering 1963 Kathleen Carol Stettler, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Electrical Engineering 1962 Mary E. Hinton, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, Mechanical Engineering. 1961 Frances Leone, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, Electrical Engineering (also apprentice engineer, guidance electronics of advance Polaris Missile System, Raytheon Company, Bedford, Massachusetts) (1964 Mrs. Maloney, on maternity-leave from Hughes Aircraft Company, second child) 1960 Judith Anderson, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, Electrical Engineering (also apprentice engineer, Missile Systems Division, Raytheon Company, Bedford, Massachusetts) 1964, Mrs. Atkinson, Engineer on Computer Work for Raytheon Company) 1959 Jane Grace Kehoe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, Chemical Engineering (1964, Mrs. Cullum, candidate for Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley) 1958 Phyllis Gaylard, University of California, Los Angeles, California (1964, Project Engineer, Space Technology Laboratory, Los Angeles)

Miss Mattie F. McFadden — Manager in missile systems of Raytheon Company and responsible for materials, process engineering and preparation of specifications during the development and production of division's contracts, including Navy's Sparrow HI and the Army's Hawk missiles. A former pilot, she was national president of the Women Flyef's of America from 1950-1954, a recipient of the Glen L. Martin gold wings in 1948, a member of Lt. General Doolittle's committee to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of powered flight in 1953. Miss J. Cicely Thompson, M.A., A.M.I.E.E., Senior engineer with The Nuclear Power Group, Cheshire, England, will present the paper on power, heat and light. Miss Thompson was one of the designer team that secured the order for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, one of the first pair of commercial nuclear power stations built by this group. Dipl. Ing. Ira Rischowski, VDI, MWES, a technical writer and the first woman to be admitted as a member of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Germany's exclusive engineering organization. She escaped Hitler's Germany through Czechoslovakia. Mrs. Laurel van der Wal Roennau — Recipient of the Society of Women Engineer's Achievement Award in 1961 for her work in space biology. Among other things she designed the space harness and instruments for the mice that preceded Sam the chimpanzee into orbit around the earth. She is a member of the Board of Airport Commissioners, City of Los Angeles. Miss E'Lise F. Harman — Recipient of the 1956 Society Award for her work in component and circuitminiaturization, was responsible for the reduction of the control panel for the manned space capsule to approximately a hundredth of its original size. Dr. Dorothy M. Simon — Vice president, Avco Corporation, and director of corporate research. Chairman of the Grants Committee of Society, she has held positions of responsibility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA, duPont, and was the principal research chemist for Magnolia Petroleum Corporation. An American, she has been a lecturer at the Imperial College, London, and at Cambridge University. Sima Miluschewa Winkler — With RCA, contributed substantially to TIROS (meteorological) and RELAY (communications) satellites. Other work encompasses the complete preliminary design of a nuclear powered space vehicle, analysis of space rendezvous techniques, the analysis of space radiation, etc. In 1963 presented a paper on "Detection of Nuclear Explosion in Outer Space." Mrs. Lottye E. Miner — President, Miner and Miner Consulting Engineers, Inc., is a licensed engineer in western states, and handles major foreign work including technical assistance to Lebanon on power transmission for country wide village electrification and design as well as construction supervision of facilities to distribute power throughout the northern half of Pakistan. Mrs. Magdalena A. Templa — First president and present director of Women Chemical Engineers in the Philippines. She produced a plastic molding powder from agricultural wastes, sugar cane bagasse, rice hulls, and coconut shells. Results of her research are widely published. During the war she developed food substitutes and had charge of their semicommercial production. Miss Margaret R. Fox — Program chairman of this conference. She is responsible for the management of the research and development laboratory, employing over 100 persons. Miss

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Director of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President of the United States at the time the conference was announced, made these comments on the objectives of this International Conference:

"This era is unlike any that the world has previously seen. Through science and engineering, we have an opportunity never before equalled to raise living standards, to battle disease and disability, to explore the frontiers of knowledge and turn nature to man's benefit. The scientist, the engineer and the mathematician play major roles in this attempt to make life more meaningful and satisfying. These technological tasks such as economic development of new nations, feeding the hungry, meeting problems of environmental pollution, and preserving peace in a competitive world, require not only the expenditure of billions of dollars every year, but also the utilization of a vast amount of technical talent, everywhere."

Fox served as an Ensign, then Lieutenant in the Navy. Mrs. Elizabeth J. McLean — Director of the Planning Section of the Bureau of Street Traffic, City of Chicago which works with the Department of Urban Renewal and other planning agencies in that city. She is an outstanding authority on traffic planning and urban renewal. Mrs. Young Sun Lee — A textile expert was the first woman research engineer at the Research Institute of Tai Chang Textile Co., the first factory in Korea that wove and finished rayon, cotton and synthetic fibers.

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