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International Women's Day

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Edith Clark

Edith Clark was the first female electrical engineer who made history with her not only scientific, but also social breakthroughs in such a complicated time, we now remember her as an iconic and historic figure in women's rights history.

Reflection

Biography

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Education

Hanna Lucía López Carrillo (A01738552)Regina Ibañez Fernández (A01737911) Andrés Camacho Segovia (A01737962)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century.

Born into a wealthy English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and, encouraged by her father, began writing professionally in 1900. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters, and biographies. She and her husband, Leonard Woolf, bought a used printing press and established their own publishing house, Hogarth Press, going on to publish some of their own work as well as that of Sigmund Freud, Katharine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot. Throughout her career, Woolf spoke regularly at colleges and universities and by her mid-forties, she had established herself as an intellectual, an innovative and influential writer, and a pioneering feminist.

In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She took her own life in 1941, at the age of 59, after her house was destroyed in The Blitz (WW2 bombing of London).

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  2. Introducing our Female Engineer of the month: Edith Clarke. (n.d.). UNT SWE. https://www.untswe.org/blog/introducing-our-female-engineer-of-the-month-edith-clarke
  3. DeTavis, H. (2021, March 14). Women’s History Month spotlight: Edith Clarke, the first female electrical engineer. News. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/womens-history-month-spotlight-edith-clarke-first-female-electrical-engineer/
  4. NIHF inductee Edith Clarke invented the graphical calculator. (2024). https://www.invent.org/inductees/edith-clarke

Education

By the time in which she graduated from Vassar College, women were unable to study electrical engineering. So she studied Civil Engineering in Wisconsin.She studied in the following universities:

  • Vassar College
  • MIT
  • Wisconsin-Madison University
  • Columbia University.
Edith Clarke's Life

Edith Clarke became an orphan when she was 12 years old. When she completed her education at Vassar College, women were not allowed to pursue studies in electrical engineering. As a result, she opted to study Civil Engineering at Wisconsin instead.

  • She was born in Howard County, Maryland in 1883.
  • She became the first female electrical engineer, and first electric engineering professor.
  • She published over 18 technical papers.

The work of...

Edith Clark

Edith Clark is internationally recognized for her invention of the graphic calculator which resulted in great progresses and achievements in the electrical engineering sector. She managed to be groundbreaking, not only in her engineering and scientific discoveries, but also in the social progresses that she represented and embarked for women's rights.

  • She later became a professor at the University of Texas at Austin
  • She was the first woman to present an AIEE paper, for which she won the award of "Best Paper of the Year".

Reflection

Edith Clarke, may be a role model for thousands of women around the world, because despite being in a world where women did not have the recognition they deserved, she managed to create a revolutionary invention that would change the course of engineering, in addition to overcoming the various challenges that were presented to her throughout her life.