Communication
Electrical/Electronic & Software/Hardware
Engineering
Innovators
Leader: Dmitry Banov
Asgedom Asmelash
Kevin Manochehri
Michelle Sandov
Brendan Wang
Ada Lovelace
• Born in 1815 to Romantic Byron and
Isabelle in England
• Grown with no father, she passed
through emotion and reason,
subjectivism and objectivism,
poetics and mathematics
• Marriage and children
• Death
Asgedom Asmelash
Ada’s Contribution
• Analyst, Metaphysician and Founder of
Scientific computer
– An algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers
– It is the first algorithm ever made
– The first Computer Programmer
– The computer language called Ada, created on
behalf of the DOD, was named after Lovelace
– The manual of the language – MIL-STD-1815
– Ada Lovelace Award and Ada Lovelace Day
Asgedom Asmelash
Hedy Lamarr
• Born in Vienna in 1914
• Actor career
– Famous for Ecstasy
• Went to dance school instead of
technical school.
• Married to Fritz Mandal
– Absorbed information when
she was forced to go to Fritz
Mandal’s dinner gatherings
where they discuss weaponry
technology.
Brendan Wang
Hedy Lamarr
• Co-invent with Geroge Antheil a torpedo guidance system
– Leads to Bluetooth and wireless technlogies
• Was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for
enemies to detect or to jam
– Manipulate radio frequencies at irregular intervals
between transmissions and reception
• Invention became a basic tool for secured
military communications.
– Paved way for Bluetooth and wireless technology
Brendan Wang
Grace Murray Hopper
• Born in New York City in 1906
• Computer engineer and U.S Navy Officer
• Developed the first computer
– compiler in 1952 and the computer
– program language COBOL
• 1969 Data Processing Management
Association awarded her the first
Computer Science Man-of-the-Year Award
• First woman Distinguished Fellow of the
British Computer Society in 1973
• Awarded the National Medal of
Technology.
Michelle Sandov
Beatrice Alice Hicks
• Women think that an engineer is a man in hip
boots building a dam. They don't realize that 95
percent of engineering is done in a nice airconditioned office.” - Hicks
• Born in Orange, New Jersey in 1919
– New Jersey Institute of Technology
– First female engineer in Western Electric
• Developed a crystal oscillator
• Attended electrical engineering graduate courses
at Columbia University
• Master´s in physics degree in from Stevens
Institute of Technology
• Family business: Newark Controls Company
• Developed environmental sensors for heating and
cooling systems
Michelle Sandov
Edith Clark
• Electrical Engineer
• Education: Vassar college, math & astronomy
– University of Wisconsin, civil engineering
(unfinished)
– M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT
• Employment: teach physics and mathematics
at San Francisco private college & Marshal
college for short time.
• AT&T
– General Electric manager
• teach physics at Constantinople Women's
College in Turkey for one year
• General Electric Engineer
• Professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Kevin Manocheri
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In 1919, the first woman to earn a Master degree in electrical engineering at MIT
In1923 , her first paper "Transmission Line Calculator," she was the first woman to
deliver a paper at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE)
In1926 Clarke created calculators to monitor and predict the performance of
electrical transmission lines.
She developed 60-cycle performance charts she received two more patents, one
for electric power transmission and the other for an electric circuit.
In 1943 She published the two-volume text, Circuit Analysis of A-C Power
Systems, The work quickly became the main textbook for new engineer
became the first female professor of EE engineering at Texas and in the country
In 1956, she was widely recognized as an authority on electric power systems
First female engineer to achieve professional standing in Tau Beta Pi, the largest
and oldest engineering fraternity in the country,
First woman named a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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listed in Who's Who in Engineering, American Women, Careers for Women, Women Can Be
Engineers, and Men of Science
Kevin Manocheri
Erna Schneider Hoover
• Earned a B.A. with honors from Wellesley
College in medieval history and a Ph.D. from
Yale University in philosophy and foundations
of mathematics.
• Taught for some years at Swarthmore College.
• In 1954, Hoover accepted a research position
at Bell Laboratories in northern New Jersey.
• created a computerized switching system for
telephone call traffic---and earned one of the
first software patents ever issued.
• Hoover eliminated the danger of overload in
processing calls by replace their hard-wired
and mechanical switching equipment with a
more complex and efficient system using a
computer.
Dmitriy Banov
Maria Luisa Merani
• Maria Luisa Merani received her Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Bologna, Italy, in 1992.
• She is an IEEE Senior member and has
served as TPC and technical chair of
several major communication conferences
(IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC)
• She is currently an associate professor of
Telecommunication Networks at the
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,
Department of Information Engineering.
• She is currently an editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Wireless
Communications.
Dmitriy Banov
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