Caption Here Eddie Bernice Johnson 1935-2023Trailblazing U.S. Representative, unrelenting promoter of women and people of color in STEM Eddie Bernice Johnson, who retired last year as the oldest member of the U.S. House of Representatives after serving 15 terms, d...

Patricia Mae Shamamy, Ph.D., P.E., F.SWE 1938–2023SWE Fellow, professor, advocate for STEM education Longtime SWE member and Fellow Patricia Mae (Bunn) Shamamy, Ph.D., P.E., 84, died March 23, 2023. Dr. Shamamy taught at Lawrence Technological University for nearly 40 ...

Roberta Banaszak Gleiter, F.SWE 1939–2023SWE Fellow, past president, and reentry engineer, dedicated to raising the profile of women engineers Roberta Banaszak Gleiter, SWE Fellow and past president, died at her Los Angeles home on July 22, 2023. She grew up in Chicago...

Carolyn Fazzolari, P.E., F.SWE 1941–2022SWE pioneer member and professor, led outreach efforts in the Greater New York area Word recently reached SWE that Carolyn Vivona Fazzolari, P.E., F.SWE, died Oct. 1, 2022. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, she became an accompli...

Evelyn Vernick Fowler 1921–2022SWE founding member and centenarian, an artist turned chemical engineer Evelyn Vernick Fowler was a young chemical engineer when she participated in the historic meeting at Camp Green that formally launched the Society of Women Engineers....

George R. Brewster 1939–2021 SWE Fellow, Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award recipient George R. Brewster, F.SWE, 1985 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award recipient, and retired manager of salary recruiting at Corning Inc., died May 4. For much of his 34-year career with Co...

1935–2020SWE Fellow, first woman president of the Colorado Engineering Council Word recently reached SWE that Darlyne C. Fuller, F.SWE, died in June 2020. A longtime member based in Denver, she graduated from the University of Denver in 1958 with a B.S. in electrical engi...

Caption Here 1928–2021SWE Fellow, pioneer, and accomplished pilot Elayne M. Brower, F.SWE, known as “Sandy,” died Nov. 14, 2021, in Richland, Washington. A pioneer member of the Society, she joined SWE in 1954 while employed in the aerodynamics lab at the David Taylo...

1926–2021Founding member of SWE Boston, human rights advocate Mary Louise Pottle was among the early women graduates from Northeastern University’s department of mechanical engineering and one of the four founders of the SWE Boston Section. Graduating from Northeastern...