The Viterbi Woman of the Week (vWOW) series highlights an outstanding female engineer--student, faculty or alumna--to the entire Viterbi community. Click below to nominate a vWOW!
>>To nominate a student, click here.
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>>To nominate an alumnae, click here.
Congratulations to the 2008-2009 Viterbi Women of the Week!
What: inspired by Amelia Earhart, Katherine became the first woman to get a BS in ME with Aero Option from NC State. She was the first female engineer to work for the Civil Aeronautics Administration (which later became the FAA). She also earned the FAA Sustained Superior Performance Award, helped organize SWE and served as president, and was named as the Aviation Pioneer of the Year in 1987