The Engineering Pathway profiles Weili Dai, Co-Founder of the Marvell Technology Group, Ltd and Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Consumer Business,  as our hero for Asian-Pacific Heritage month. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science program, she is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Newsweek named her [...]

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Today in History – May 30, 1932 – Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was one of the most famous women aviators in history. Earhart worked as a nurse’s aide in a military hospital in Canada during WWI and became a social worker after attending college. She took her [...]

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Engineering design community tribute to John McMasters – an enthusiastic engineer with a passion for designing aircraft and inspiring the next generation of engineering designers. He was a tireless advocate for industry integration into project-based learning and in developing sustainable industry-academe partnerships. He was named a Technical Fellow at Boeing, a Fellow of the American [...]

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Today in History – May 28, 1936 – “Turing Machine” paper submitted, his first paper on decidability. Turing’s achievements at Cambridge had been on account of his work in probability theory. However, he had been working on the decidability questions since attending Max Newman‘s course on the foundations of mathematics. In 1936 he published “On [...]

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Today in History – May 27, 1950 – Founding of the Society of Women Engineers. In 2010, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) celebrated 60 years by commemorating our founders and heritage, while continuing to inspire current and future generations of engineers to reach their own aspirations. Part of this celebration includes looking back on [...]

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