Sunita Williams
American astronaut
American astronaut
American biomedical engineer, patent-holding inventor, author, and entrepreneur
NASA astronaut and Air Force pilot
Vietnamese-American Army engineer
US Representative from California
American electrical/systems engineer
Originally an aerospace engineer, Janet Guthrie began racing part time in 1963 on the Sports Car Club of America circuit. By 1972, she was racing full time and in 1977 she became the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
Bronwyn Adams graduated from Monash University in 1971 as the first female chemical engineer in Victoria, Australia.
Veena Sahajwalla is renowned for her research into the properties of carbon-bearing materials.
One of the Little Rock Nine children who de-segregated their Arkansas schools, she later founded and served as the Editor-in-Chief for Computers in Industry, an international journal of computer science and engineering.