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Opening Thoughts on SWE 2017

Post author By MrsEnginerd
Post date October 26, 2017
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With the hashtags #We17, #WomenMakeUsBetter and #BalanceTheEquation all over the twitterverse, it is evident that the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Austin is all about #STEMinism. As companies attempt to recruit, retrain and promote women into positions of leadership and technical excellence there is an accompanying social push to redefine gender roles in the […]

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Post author By MrsEnginerd
Post date July 31, 2017
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A few years ago I met a guy that works at JPL. We all treated him like a rock star and with reason: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is every engineering nerds dream job, right up there with Skunk Works and Disney’s Imagineers. My pal has pictures with every actor and director involved in space movies, […]