Website: EGR 110: Underrepresented Engineers

Black Engineers

NASA spacecraft and instrument design

NASA’s first Black female engineer

Tuskegee Airman and D.C. Metro’s first Black engineer

Aerospace engineer and physicist

Mechanical engineer

A self-taught engineer who became the first major Black video game engineer and designer

Mechanical engineer at NASA

NASA Mathematician

Inventor and engineer who created an improvement to Thomas Edison’s light bulb

Aerospace engineer

Inventor with a patent in automated machine lubrication process

Engineers with Diverse Abilities

Charles Steinmetz (Electrical engineer): Congenital Kyphosis

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Farida Bedwei (Software engineer): Celebral Palsy

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Ralph Braun (Mechanical engineering): Muscular Dystrophy

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Johanna Lucht (Systems engineer): Deaf

Searching for Underrepresented Engineers

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Woman Engineers

Astronaut for the International Space Station

Chartered Engineer

Project/Civil Engineer

Structural Engineer

Chemist responsible for Kevlar and other synthetic fibers

Patent for a system of central heating w/ natural gas

Mechanical engineer

Google and Yahoo computer scientist

Engineer Brooklyn Bridge

Electric Engineer, Transgender advocate

Rocket and jet propulsion engineer

Mechanical engineer in machining

Industrial engineer

Computer Programmer

Actress and pioneered technology that led to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth

Christian Koch (1979-)

Civil Engineer

Architects

Latine Engineers

Scarlin Hernandez, Aerospace engineer

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Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut and engineer

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Arturo Arias Suárez, Civil engineer

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Claudio Castillón Lévano, Engineer from Peru

EGR 110

Black Engineers

Engineers with Diverse Abilities

Searching for Underrepresented Engineers

Woman Engineers

Engineer Brooklyn Bridge

​​​Computer Programmer

Actress and pioneered technology that led to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth

Christian Koch (1979-)

Architects

Latine Engineers

Computer Programmer