WOMAN ENGINEER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 23

WOMAN ENGINEER

WORK IN AERONAUTICS PROGRESS IN AMERICA It is considered that during the past year wompn have made greater and more interesting progress in the technical side of professions in which they are still "news" than in any other of the post-war years. Particularly is this so in relation to aviation. While England has her Amy Johnson and other women who have qualified in. t tho various branches of aeronautical engineering, women are still pioneering in this field in the United States. «

Considerable attention was given in American newspapers a few weeks ago to the fact that Mrs. Mabel Rockwell, one of the few women electrical enfineers in the United States, was the rst woman to gradulate from the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics at Grand Central Air Terminal. Mrs. Hockwcll took her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her master's degree at Stanford University. She is married to an electrical engineer who was a fellow-worker on the famous Boulder Dam ; where she was the only woman working on the electrical installations. It is on the electrical side that she hopes to develop her .association with aircraft design, but strangely enough she has never learned to fly.