1. Communication Electrical/Electronic & Software/Hardware Engineering

2. Ada Lovelace Born in 1815 to Romantic Byron and Isabelle in England Grown with no father, she passed through emotion and reason, subjectivism and objectivism, poetics and mathematics Marriage and children Death Asgedom Asmelash

3. Ada’s Contribution Analyst, Metaphysician and Founder of Scientific computer – An algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers – It is the first algorithm ever made – The first Computer Programmer – The computer language called Ada, created on behalf of the DOD, was named after Lovelace – The manual of the language – MIL-STD-1815 – Ada Lovelace Award and Ada Lovelace Day Asgedom Asmelash

4. Hedy Lamarr Brendan Wang Born in Vienna in 1914 Actor career – Famous for Ecstasy Went to dance school instead of technical school. Married to Fritz Mandal – Absorbed information when she was forced to go to Fritz Mandal’s dinner gatherings where they discuss weaponry technology.

5. Hedy Lamarr Co-invent with Geroge Antheil a torpedo guidance system – Leads to Bluetooth and wireless technlogies Was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam – Manipulate radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmissions and reception Invention became a basic tool for secured military communications. – Paved way for Bluetooth and wireless technology Brendan Wang

6. Grace Murray Hopper Born in New York City in 1906 Computer engineer and U.S Navy Officer Developed the first computer – compiler in 1952 and the computer – program language COBOL 1969 Data Processing Management Association awarded her the first Computer Science Man-of-the-Year Award First woman Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973 Awarded the National Medal of Technology. Michelle Sandov

7. Beatrice Alice Hicks Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don't realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air- conditioned office.” - Hicks Born in Orange, New Jersey in 1919 – New Jersey Institute of Technology – First female engineer in Western Electric Developed a crystal oscillator Attended electrical engineering graduate courses at Columbia University Master´s in physics degree in from Stevens Institute of Technology Family business: Newark Controls Company Developed environmental sensors for heating and cooling systems Michelle Sandov

8. Edith Clark Electrical Engineer Education: Vassar college, math & astronomy – University of Wisconsin, civil engineering (unfinished) – M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT Employment: teach physics and mathematics at San Francisco private college & Marshal college for short time. AT&T – General Electric manager teach physics at Constantinople Women's College in Turkey for one year General Electric Engineer Professor at the University of Texas at Austin Kevin Manocheri

9. Edith Clark In 1919, the first woman to earn a Master degree in electrical engineering at MIT In1923, her first paper "Transmission Line Calculator," she was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) In1926 Clarke created calculators to monitor and predict the performance of electrical transmission lines. She developed 60-cycle performance charts she received two more patents, one for electric power transmission and the other for an electric circuit. In 1943 She published the two-volume text, Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems, The work quickly became the main textbook for new engineer became the first female professor of EE engineering at Texas and in the country In 1956, she was widely recognized as an authority on electric power systems First female engineer to achieve professional standing in Tau Beta Pi, the largest and oldest engineering fraternity in the country, First woman named a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. – listed in Who's Who in Engineering, American Women, Careers for Women, Women Can Be Engineers, and Men of Science Kevin Manocheri

10. Erna Schneider Hoover Earned a B.A. with honors from Wellesley College in medieval history and a Ph.D. from Yale University in philosophy and foundations of mathematics. Taught for some years at Swarthmore College. In 1954, Hoover accepted a research position at Bell Laboratories in northern New Jersey. created a computerized switching system for telephone call traffic---and earned one of the first software patents ever issued. Hoover eliminated the danger of overload in processing calls by replace their hard-wired and mechanical switching equipment with a more complex and efficient system using a computer. Dmitriy Banov

11. Maria Luisa Merani Maria Luisa Merani received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1992. She is an IEEE Senior member and has served as TPC and technical chair of several major communication conferences (IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC) She is currently an associate professor of Telecommunication Networks at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Information Engineering. She is currently an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dmitriy Banov

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