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Diversity in Engineering

Case Studies:

Gender & Discrimination in the field:

Poster of Blanche Lawrence: Worked as a technician and junior biochemist at Met Lab, which became Argonne National Lab, during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb. Graduated from Tuskegee University where she belonged to the Physical Education Club and the Creative Dance Group. One of only a few African-American women in math and science who worked on the Manhattan Project.

Poster of Evelyn Boyd Granville: Second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics and created computer software for America’s early space missions like the Mercury and Apollo program. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., and also has lived in Tennessee, California, Connecticut, and Texas where she sold chicken eggs. Loves teaching in STEM fields and held jobs at universities, elementary schools, and wrote a text book

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