Women and engineering – an online exhibition

Photo by Duke Yearlook, www.flickr.com

We’ve come across a really interesting online exhibition put together by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Entitled ‘Women and engineering, emancipation from drudgery’ it charts the fascinating history of the struggle women encountered before gaining recognition and acceptance as engineers. The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women and their efforts to educate and help them are also featured.

Adding a local flavour, you’ll see by clicking on the link to ‘The Woman Engineer’, the journal of the WES, one of the first editions has a cover shot of women working in the gauge shop at Loughborough College!

Link here to the full exhibition.

Important new content added to the IEEE Xplore…

The IEEE legacy collection is part of IEEE’s plan to digitize all papers from its technology journals including key papers that chronicle the development of today’s information age. More than 250,000 historic papers have recently been added to the database. With the addition of these historic publications, dating back to 1913, you will have access to a repository of papers by visionaries in the electrical and electronics engineering professions. Notable additions to the collection include the Proceedings of the IEEE as well as the Computer Magazine, dating back to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. The collection also includes a number of conference proceedings dating back to the 1950s.

Explore the history of Engineering at:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp