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Black Engineers

Co-inventor of the IBM personal computer

Influencial work on algorithmic bias and fairness

Inventor of the three-position traffic signal and a safety hood respirator

Invented the Laserphaco Probe

Created the multiple-effect evaporator

 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

First African American to earn a PhD in Computer Science. Pioneered the field of groupware and real time collaborative editing

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

Woman Engineers

Influenced computational number theory

First woman to win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Designer of the LINC-one of the first personal computers

'Mother of the Internet' Invented Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Astronaut for the International Space Station

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

Chartered Engineer

Project/Civil Engineer

Developed software for Centaur rocket systems

Structural Engineer

Chemist responsible for Kevlar and other synthetic fibers

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Patent for a system of central heating w/ natural gas

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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

First woman dean of an engineering school

“First Lady of Physics”

Christian Koch (1979-)

Civil Engineer

Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929-1982)

Structural 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

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Franklin Chang-Díaz, Physicist and NASA astronaut