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Women Can Fill American Industry’s Engineering Void
Traditionally, women have been slow to enter engineering and even slower to enter mechanical engineering, accounting for only about 20% of engineering degrees. Today, numerous efforts are under way to try to attract more women into engineering, especially with American industry having difficulty finding enough homegrown engineers.
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Yvonne Brill is the winner of the 2011 inaugural Kate Gleason Award. The award honors the legacy of Kate Gleason, the first woman to be welcomed into ASME as a full member, and recognizes a female engineer who is a highly successful entrepreneur in a field of engineering or who has had a lifetime of achievement in the engineering profession.
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The performance of a team improves when members’ individual personalities are diverse, even though it takes longer for such psychologically diverse teams to achieve good cooperation in the beginning. Such team members bring the benefit of having different ways of approaching and solving problems. This belief is based on observation of student project teams, mainly in Stanford University’s mechanical engineering design program.
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