SWE Fellow, dedicated educator, role model, mentor, and violinist Word reached SWE that Marie S. Kiss, Ed.D., died in 2017. Dr. Kiss taught chemical engineering at Norwalk State Technical College, where she was a role model and mentor to thousands of students over her ...

SWE Fellow and life member, used her training to contribute to international development Mary Ann Zimmerman, P.E., began her career as a traffic engineer, moved on to the design and study of engines, and then coordinated product-related environmental programs. Over the...

Chemical engineer, Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award recipient, and longest-serving SWE editorial board member who supported and inspired many When Walter McFall received SWE’s Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award in 1997, it embodied his many years of effort, both seen and uns...

SWE Fellow; first woman to receive an engineering degree from Yale University Born in 1929, Consuelo “Connie” Minnich Hauser, P.E., was a child of the Great Depression who excelled in math and science. Growing up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, she worked in architec...

SWE Fellow and early member; professor and researcher who inspired generations of women engineering students Word reached SWE recently that SWE Fellow Frances “Billie” Richardson, founding member of SWE’s North Carolina Section, died in April 2017. In addition to ...

SWE charter member and Fellow; trailblazer whose motto was, “I have never been afraid to be first.” As an accomplished student, Anna Kazanjian Longobardo enrolled in the pre-engineering program at Barnard College (sister school to the then all-male Col...

SWE Former Attorney SWE Friend Regina C. Saat, J.D., the attorney who represented SWE for a number of years during the 1990s, died in August 2020. Saat was hired by Past President Jill S. Tietjen, P.E., F.SWE, and worked closely with Tietjen and the following SWE presiden...

Founding SWE member, attended historic Camp Green meeting Mildred H. Paret, P.E., graduated with a B.S. in civil engineering from The Cooper Union in 1948. She launched her career as a highway designer with Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and MacDonald, where she was employed...

Barbara G. Fox SWE Fellow, champion of women’s rights in the profession and religious life Barbara G. Fox, F.SWE, joined the Society of Women Engineers in 1958, just one year after graduating with a B.S. in civil engineering from Marquette University, where she was the...

Sharon Varian Loeffler SWE past president and Fellow, designed U.S. postal stamp honoring the First Lady of Engineering Sharon Varian Loeffler, F.SWE, was born in Colorado in 1943, grew up in Oklahoma, and spent much of her working life in Texas, considering each local...