Women in Engineering

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The evolving role of women in the engineering profession will be discussed, from the perspective of a woman whose engineering career spans a period of almost 70 years. What was it like to be a woman engineer in the 40's, how have things changed, and what does the future hold?

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Gloria Brooks Reinish received the BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Electrical Engineering, and Doctor of Engineering Science in Biomedical Engineering, all from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. (She was the first woman to obtain an engineering degree from Columbia.) Dr. Reinish was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and a Research and Development engineer at the Sperry Gyroscope Company, where she obtained a patent on a precision ranging system for a long range radar application. She retired from Sperry to start a family, raised three children (all engineers), and became a professor of Electrical Engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she has been teaching for the past 50 years. Dr. Reinish was a consultant to the medical devices panel of the Food and Drug Administration, having done research on electrical properties of bone, and on electrical stimulation of bone growth. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE (including WIE and EMBS), a Fellow of the Society of Women Engineers, and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

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