ME Women's Seminar: Brit d'Arbeloff - Becoming fearless - Calculating risks, building your skill set, and going for it!

The ME Graduate Women's Group has offered ME/ENGR 311A: Women's Perspectives, a 1-unit credit seminar, every year since the group's inception in 1998. For credit or not, everyone is welcome to come! Speakers are asked to address the factors, experiences, and lessons that have been particularly important to their success in industry, academia, and... life. 

The seminars are every Thursday, January 8 - March 12, 2015.

4:00 pm Social, 4:15 pm Seminar Starts

Building 300 - Main Quad, Room 300, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford   (map)

Feb 26
Brit d'Arbeloff, MS

Chair, MIT Council of the Arts
First woman to graduate from Stanford with a Mechanical Engineering Degree

Brit d’Arbeloff studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford, graduating first in her class in 1957.  She was the first woman to receive an engineering degree from Stanford.  Despite the difficult employment conditions for women at the time, she worked in rocketry and aviation, returning to school for a Masters degree from MIT.

Later, she took time off to raise her four children before reentering the job market, this time as a software programmer in the fast-growing computer industry of the early ‘80s.  In addition, she has worked in fashion retail and as an author, writing five novels.  She has been an activist for the recruitment and retention of women in engineering, working to pull down artificial barriers to entry.  Brit currently serves as the chair for the MIT Council for the Arts.

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