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List of the most influential female people in Engineering,

#701

Josette Bellan

#121819

Overall Influence

Josette Bellan is a Romanian-French-American aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist known for her research on turbulence in high-pressure reactions, and on the interactions between fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in these reactions. She is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and visiting associate in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering of the California Institute of Technology .

#702

Iris D. Tommelein

#157691

Overall Influence

#703

Liz Ogbu

#65512

Overall Influence

Liz Ogbu is an American architect, designer and urbanist whose work focuses on issues related to community building and spatial justice. She is the founder and principal of the design consulting firm Studio O.

#704

Gill Matthewson

#120273

Overall Influence

Gill Matthewson is a New Zealand architect, scholar and educator, based since 2016 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Early life and education Matthewson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and educated at Tawa College. She received her bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Auckland, School of Architecture, in New Zealand, followed by a master's degree in architecture from University of East London for a study on the work of Lilly Reich titled "Sex, Lies and the Barcelona Pavilion" . She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2015 on the topic "Dim...

#705

Marie-Chantal Croft

#115807

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marie-Chantal Croft is an architect in Quebec, Canada. She teaches architectural design at the School of Architecture of Laval University. Biography She graduated from Laval University in 1992. She was a co-founder of the firm "Croft Pelletier" architectes in 1995 together with Patkau Architects. "Croft Pelletier" architectes designed the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal. The firm also won the competition to design a major expansion to the bibliothèque de Charlesbourg in Quebec City and received the Henry Adams Certificate of the American Institute of Architecture.

#706

Annika von Hausswolff

#93504

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Annika von Hausswolff, born March 30, 1967, is a Swedish visual artist. She studied at Sven Winquists School of Photography in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1987 to 1989; Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft & Design, Stockholm from 1991 to 1994 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1995 to 1996. She received a ten-year grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee in 2002. She has had solo shows at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden; and the Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden....

#707

Yewande Akinola

#111547

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Yewande Akinola is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as Principal Engineer for Laing O'Rourke and hosts television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic.

#708

Lydia Sohn

#124696

Overall Influence

Lydia Lee Sohn is a professor of mechanical engineering and bio-engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the co-founder of Nodexus. In 2002, Sohn and Paul McEuen uncovered figure duplication and fraud in scientific papers on semiconductors written by Jan Hendrik Schön, leading to multiple retractions and concerns over peer-review, which is referred to as the Schön scandal.

#709

Karmella Haynes

#100709

Overall Influence

Karmella Ann Haynes is a biomedical engineer and associate professor at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She researches how chromatin is used to control cell development in biological tissue.

#710

Nan Goldin

#40089

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Nancy Goldin is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency . The monograph documents the post-Stonewall, gay subculture and includes Goldin's family and friends. She is a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N. . She lives and works in New York City.

#711

Mary Ann Jordan

#159494

Overall Influence

#712

Anne E. Carpenter

#83008

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Anne E. Carpenter is an American scientist in the field of image analysis for cell biology and artificial intelligence for drug discovery. She is the co-creator of CellProfiler, open-source software for high-throughput biological image analysis, and a co-inventor of the Cell Painting assay, a method for image-based profiling. She is an Institute Scientist and Senior Director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute.

#713

Jayne Woodside

#158622

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jayne Valerie Woodside is a British nutritionist who is Professor of Human Nutrition at the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. Her research considers human nutrition intervention with whole foods. She is on the Board of Trustees of The Nutrition Society.

#714

Shaily Mahendra

Shaily Mahendra

#148720

Overall Influence

Shaily Mahendra is an Indian-American civil and environmental engineer. She is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles . Career After earning her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, Mahendra accepted a research scientist position at Rice University. At Rice, Mahendra studied how silver nanoparticles contained in water filtration membranes, polymers, and oil paints, worked to disinfect viruses, bacteria, and fungi. She also led a project to explore natural and engineered bioremediation of 1,4-dioxane in colder climate...

#715

Itala Fulvia Villa

Itala Fulvia Villa

#135871

Overall Influence

1913 - 1991 (78 years)

Itala Fulvia Villa was an Argentinian architect whose main forte was city planning. She was an integral part of creating and designing the urban model for the city of Buenos Aires. As part of urbanization process, she designed and built a plan for the neighborhood known as Bajo Flores, where Pope Francis grew up, for which she received first prize in the 6th National Exhibition of Architecture Fair in 1945. In 1979, she was a representative of the Argentina Federation of University Women.

#716

Fauzia Ahmad

#138082

Overall Influence

Fauzia Ahmad is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Temple University. Her research considers statistical signal processing and ultrasonic guided wave structural health monitoring. She serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and SPIE.

#717

Ingeborg Kühler

#124873

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Ingeborg Kühler is a German architect, engineer and university lecturer. She was the first female design professor at a West German architecture faculty and designed the plans for the Technoseum in Mannheim.

#718

Sina Farsiu

#160901

Overall Influence

#719

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

#130903

Overall Influence

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and holds the Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Her research considers the development of optical techniques for clinical diagnosis and surgical guidance, particularly using Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. She serves on the Board of Directors of SPIE, and is a Fellow of SPIE, The Optical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. She was elected to serve as the 2020 Vice President of SPIE. With her election, Mahadevan-Jansen j...

#720

Mary Golda Ross

Mary Golda Ross

#96441

Overall Influence

1908 - 2008 (100 years)

Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American female engineer. She was also the first female engineer in the history of the Lockheed Corporation. She worked at Lockheed from 1942 until her retirement in 1973, where she was best remembered for her work on aerospace design. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project while at Lockheed Corporation. Throughout her life, Ross was dedicated to the advancement of young women and Native Americans in STEM fields.Ten years after her death, in 2018, Ross was chosen to be depicted on the 2019 Native American $1 Coin by the U.S.

#721

Kathryn Stecke

#143894

Overall Influence

Kathryn Elizabeth Stecke is an American industrial engineer and management scientist known for her expertise in flexible manufacturing, supply chains, and seru, a Japanese production system based on using small groups of workers to assemble whole products instead of using assembly lines in which each worker handles only a small and repetitive sub-assembly task. She is a professor of operations management in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she holds the Naveen Jindal School Advisory Council Chair.

#722

Julie Linsey

#134620

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Julie Stahmer Linsey is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns creativity in the early phases of engineering design. She is a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

#723

Sharon E. Sutton

Sharon E. Sutton

#111336

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Sharon Egretta Sutton , is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington. In 1984, she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program while teaching at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University.

#724

Kelli Connell

#85553

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Kelli Connell is an American contemporary photographer. Connell is known for creating portraits, which may appear as self-portraits. Her work is held in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Dallas Museum of Art.

#725

Karen Burns

#109003

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Karen Burns is an architectural historian and theorist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently a senior lecturer in architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne. Early years and education Born in January 1962, Burns grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris. Her feminist activism first found expression in 1978 when she worked as a volunteer at a newly established refuge for women and children escaping family violence.

#726

Valeria Bertacco

#135104

Overall Influence

Valeria Bertacco is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Vice Provost for Engaged Learning at the University of Michigan. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.

#727

Ella Atkins

#105434

Overall Influence

Ella Marie Atkins is an American aerospace engineer whose research involves flight planning and the coordination of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. She is a head of the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, where she holds the Fred D. Durham Chair in Engineering, and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.

#728

Lynn M. Walker

#100587

Overall Influence

Lynn Walker is a professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research considers the rheology of complex fluids and how nanostructure impacts the behavior of complex systems. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society of Rheology, and the American Physical Society.

#729

Lindsay Stringer

#101446

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Lindsay C. Stringer is a Professor in Environment and Development at the University of York. Stringer's research is interdisciplinary and uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand human-environment relationships, feedbacks and trade-offs, examining the impacts for human wellbeing, equity and the environment

#730

Cheryl Kerfeld

#108583

Overall Influence

Cheryl Ann Kerfeld is an American bioengineer who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She holds a joint position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research considers bioinformatics, cellular imaging and structural biology.

#731

Kai-Mei Fu

#147777

Overall Influence

Kai-Mei Fu is an American electrical engineer and physicist. They are an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington where they are the director of the Optical Spintronics and Sensing Lab.

#732

Ferhan Çeçen

#127184

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Ferhan Çeçen is a Turkish environmental engineer and chemist researching wastewater treatment, environmental biotechnology, and adsorption processes. She is a professor at the Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences.

#733

Lisa Su

#117536

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Lisa Su is a Taiwanese-born American business executive and electrical engineer, who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center.

#734

Eva Herrmann

#163362

Overall Influence

#735

Lori Brown

#113536

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Lori Brown is American architect and the co-founder of ArchiteXX, a group dedicated to transforming the architecture profession for women. She is a registered architect, author and Distinguished professor at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. She is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the American Association of University Women.

#736

Roberta M. Feldman

#56158

Overall Influence

Roberta Feldman is an American architect and educator. She holds the title of Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago. She has worked with Chicago housing and community organizations to revitalize and preserve low-income neighborhoods.

#737

Maryam Tabrizian

#164298

Overall Influence

#738

Lynn Davis

#80345

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Lynn Davis is an American photographer known for her large-scale black-and-white photographs which are widely collected publicly and privately and are internationally exhibited. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1944, Davis studied at University of Colorado between 1962 and 1964, and at the University of Minnesota from 1964 to 1966. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970, and in 1974 she began her career as an apprentice to Berenice Abbott.

#739

Mingyan Liu

#98056

Overall Influence

Mingyan Liu is an electrical engineering and computer science professor, and the Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Her research is in optimal resource allocation, sequential decision theory, incentive design, online learning, and modeling and mining of large scale Internet measurement data concerning cyber security. She was a co-founder of the cybersecurity scoring startup Quadmetrics in 2014. Quadmetrics was named a "2016 Cool Vendor in Risk Management" by Gartner, and was acquired by FICO in 2016.

#740

Pamela Cosman

#153373

Overall Influence

Pamela Cosman is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She has conducted a pioneering research on the quality of compressed images for application in medical diagnostic imaging. At UCSD, Cosman currently researches ways to improve wireless video transmission.

#741

Susan Rankaitis

#65931

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Susan Rankaitis is an American multimedia artist working primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter. Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school, she had a transformative encounter with the photograms of the artist László Moholy-Nagy , whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she saw as "both painting and photography." Rankaitis began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography.

#742

Ellen Longmire

#155488

Overall Influence

Ellen Kathryn Longmire is an American applied physicist and mechanical engineer known for her research in experimental fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota, where she is also Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Science & Engineering,, the former chair of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, and one of three editors-in-chief of the journal Experiments in Fluids.

#743

Hallie C. Prescott

#164997

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#744

Jean Adams

#161910

Overall Influence

Jean Adams is an epidemiologist and Professor of Dietary Public Health at the MRC Epidemiology Unit based at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Education Adams earned a MSc in 2007 at the City, University of London in Health Psychology; in 2004, a Ph.D. at Newcastle University in Epidemiology and Public Health and a MBBS there in 2001 as well as a BMedSci in Health Psychology and Psychiatry in 1998.

#745

Emily Talen

#139851

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Emily Talen is professor of urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship , and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Her work has attracted close to 15,000 citations listed on Google Scholar.

#746

Diane Pearson

#55926

Overall Influence

Diane M. Pearson is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1998 PhD titled 'The impact of human activity on landscape diversity in space and time : measurement and analysis of spatial structure and change in the Milton-Ulladulla area of NSW' at the Australian National University, Peason moved to the Charles Darwin University and then Massey University, rising to full professor.

#747

Lee Hall

#86865

Overall Influence

1934 - 2017 (83 years)

Lee Hall was an American painter, writer, educator, and a university president. She was an abstract landscape painter. She served as the 13th president of Rhode Island School of Design . In 1993, Hall wrote a controversial book on the artists Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning.

#748

Jenni Sidey-Gibbons

#114612

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (36 years)

Jennifer Anne MacKinnon Sidey is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and academic. She was selected by the Canadian Space Agency as one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Joshua Kutryk. In 2023, CSA assigned her to be Jeremy Hansen's backup for the Artemis II lunar flyby mission. As of the 2023 CSA Artemis announcement, she goes by her married name, Jenni Gibbons.

#749

Eva Håkansson

#86609

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Eva Håkansson is a Swedish mechanical engineer and lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 2014 she became the world's fastest woman on an electric motorbike. Early life and education Håkansson grew up in Sweden. She studied Business Administration and Environmental Science at Mälardalen University College. Her father, Sven Håkansson, used to build motorcycles and her mother was the family mechanic. In 2007 she converted a motorcycle into an electronic bike with her father and the ElectroCat became the first registered e-bike in Sweden. In 2007, whilst writing a book about motorcycles and e...

#750

Leslie M. Smith

#105850

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Leslie Morgan Smith is an American applied mathematician, mechanical engineer, and engineering physicist whose research focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of mathematics and of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin.

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