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Women are happy and successful engineers in all fields of the profession. m Betty Yost Betty J. Yost, P.E., Is a group leader in the actuator design group of Ledex Incorporated, Dayton, Ohio. During her 14 years with that firm she has held supervisory positions in production control, materials control a n d inspection. Her work includes application design in the actuator product line for both commercial and military uses. Miss Yost is president of the Dayton Society of Professional Engineers, a chapter of the OSPE. Barbara Lunde Mrs. Barbara Lunde works in the Stabilization and Control Branch of the Space Craft Systems and Project Division, Godd a r d Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. She r e cently invented a new valve with no moving parts for controlling the jet spray of liquid propeliants from satellite reaction jets. Together with Mr. William D. Hibbard of the same branch. She has made a patent disclosure for her new invention. Lottye E. Miner Lottye E. Miner, P.E., is president of Miner & Miner Consulting Engineers, I n c . , of G r e e l e y , Colorado, and chairman of the board of Miner & Miner International with branch offices in Brazil and West Pakistan. She and Mr. Miner founded the parent firm in 1946. She assisted in the technical work and general planning and management of a l l aspects of the operation, and upon his death she took over the firm. Elsie Eaves Elsie Eaves, P.E., has been for 31 years manager of the ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD's business news department, where she developed exclusive construction cost and volume statistics. She also managed CONSTRUCTION DAILY, which she helped to develop. Miss Eaves pioneered as the first woman to earn many professional engineering recognitions and honors. She is a life member of the Queens County Chapter, NYSSPE. Women are known to be outstanding computer programmers, but they are also good at untangling the wiring in a control chassis for a magnetic-type computer controller. among those with liberal arts backgrounds there are a high number of clerical and nonprofessional workers. A recent National Engineering Aptitude Search Testing Program, sponsored by the Junior Engineering Technical Society, showed that 7 per cent of the approximately 900 junior high and high school students whose scores indicated high engineering attainment were girls. Engineering colleges across the country are open to them, some actually would welcome more women in their graduate courses. Women who have become engineers have found their work most rewarding. "It has been a fascinating profession, and I firmly believe that the field of engineering offers some excellent opportunities for women." "I have al- ways had cooperation at all levels of operation in our firm." "As mother of two, wife of an engineer and an engineer myself, I would encourage my daughters to pursue careers in the world of science and engineering, if their aptitude and temperament indicate success." "I work with a company of 300 employees, and I recommend this size of operation particularly to women engineers. The opportunities for varied experience are excellent." So comment women engineers from across the country. T h e President's Commission on the Status of Women is drawing u p plans for new and expanded services for women, particularly for wives and mothers, that will include education, counselling, training, and arrangement of care for children during the working The American Engineer 28
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