Julie Hammer joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1977, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney. She was originally an education officer but transferred to the Engineer Branch in 1981. Hammer was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron.
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979, beginning as a senior demonstrator and ending as a Reader.
In 2024, Mexican politician and environmental engineer Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico, winning a landslide victory.
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
She collaborated with her husband, an electronics technician, to design and create the first closed-circuit television security system, changing home security for generations to come.
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Viscountess Pirrie , public figure and philanthropist
American aerospace engineer
In 1811 Sarah Guppy patented a method for making safe abutments for suspension bridges.
1920s British car racer and mechanic