Each week this blog will feature a prominent woman who made significant contributions to engineering or science. If you have any women you'd like us to feature please let us know and we'll do our best to include them.
Women's Move to Mining Seamless: A hard hat and steel-cap boots are not ideal accessories for most girls, but they haven't stopped women cashing in on the resources boom.
Goulbourne earns NSF award to research heart stent sensors: Innovative work on a new type of heart stent sensor is earning Nakhiah Goulbourne, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award of $400,000.
Ummm, ok, I have a friend who lives in country Vic, she plants the explosives in a mine, and has done so for quite a few years, along with being the fire warden of that mine, and works in the local radio station.
I just wish there was more women getting into the Engineering areas, I knew 1 friend who was told by her teacher to stay away from Electronics, I advised her that she should follow her dream and do Electronics, but she said it was too late, that the teacher had "encouraged" her away from it some time before she told me of it.
Pisses you off when intelligent people are not encouraged to go the direction they should be going, but forced into directions they are less than interested in going.
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Maybe someday we will evolve as a society to the point where people are encouraged to follow their passion as a career regardless of gender. I suppose that would mean not only more women as scientists and engineers, but more men as whatever women are "traditionally" expected to be, but it's a risk I'm willing to take. Go it, girls... errr... ladies!
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