Archived Website: Women in Engineering Program, 2012-Ongoing

The Women in Engineering Program records (1935-2012; 1.85 cubic feet) documents the creation of the program, as well as its activities and successes.  Also included in the collection is information on Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and the first woman to graduate in engineering at Purdue, Martha Dicks Stevens.  The records reflect the growth of the program over the years as well as the substantial increases in the number of women engineers that were attributed to the program.  The collection would be useful to researchers interested in women in STEM and traditionally male fields, women’s history, and the role of public universities in the women’s movement.  The records would also be useful for researchers interested in publicity a/or publications regarding Lillian Gilbreth and her role as a pioneering woman engineer.  The collection is comprised primarily of publicly distributed materials and has little in the way of correspondence or personal papers.  Types of materials include:  brochures, clippings, electronic media, photographs, reports, and speeches.  The records are organized into four series.