SWE - Fall 2007 - (Page 96) SWE Scrapbook SWE Archives presents a regular series spotlighting women’s engineering history Promoting the Next Generation Engineer To encourage young women to enter the engineering profession and to support their academic pursuits, the Society, early on, instituted a scholarship program. A long-standing tradition of honorary and memorial awards began in 1958 with the Lillian Moller Gilbreth Scholarship, created in honor of the “first lady of engineering” and SWE’s own first honorary member. Based on the scientific aptitude, character, and financial need of undergraduate juniors and seniors, this $500 gift has grown into a $10,000 award. By 1977 SWE had added fifteen more scholarships, among them: RCA, Herbert A. White, SWE Founders, United Technologies Corporation, Bertha Lamme Westinghouse, G.E. Foundation, and TRW. Since then, SWE has steadily increased financial assistance to students with over 130 annual awards endowed by members, sections, and U.S. corporations. — Deborah Rice, SWE Archivist Dr. Lillian Gilbreth presents the 1964 Gilbreth Scholarship to Valerie Petersen on the University of Wisconsin campus. Then-SWE president, Naomi McAfee accepts a grant from Westinghouse executives for the creation of the Bertha Lamme Westinghouse scholarship in 1973. That same year, McAfee presents the first Bertha Lamme Westinghouse to Doris Bacon as Helen Grenga, Ph.D., and other Georgia Institute of Technology faculty look on. 96 SWE FALL 2007
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