Today is National Women in Engineering Day - a day dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering. In celebration of the day, here is a list of our Top Ten Influential Female Engineers...
Martha Coston (1826 - 1904) - An inventor and businesswoman, best known for her invention of the Coston Flare, a device for signalling at sea.
Lillian Gilbreth (1878 - 1972) - An American Psychologist and Industrial Engineer, one of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D.
Padmasree Warrior - Chief Technology and Strategy Officer (CTO) of Cisco Systems and former CTO of Motorola, Inc. As of 2014, she is listed as the 71st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Beatrice A. Hicks (1919 - 1979) - an American engineer, the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and both co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers.
Edith Clarke (1883 - 1959) - The first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas.
Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - An American engineer and businesswoman known both for being an accomplished woman in a predominantly male field of engineering and for her philanthropy.
Mary Walton - Nineteenth-Century inventor who was awarded two patents for pollution-reducing devices.
Helen Greiner - Co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks, a start-up company specialising in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets.
Elsie Eaves (1898 - 1983) - First female associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a founding member of the American Association of Cost Engineers (Now AACE International).
Ellen Kullman - a US business executive. She is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") in Wilmington and a former director of General Motors. Forbes ranked her 31st of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014. She holds a degree in mechanical engineering.
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