Election to the National Academy of Engineering is known as "the highest honor accorded an engineer." The first woman ever to be elected to the NAE was Lillian Gilbreth in 1965. The next elected were:
The NAE was established in 1964 under the same congressional charter as the National Academy of Sciences. Together, they oversee the operations of the National Research Council, and advise the government on issues of science and technology policy.
To date, 2,330 men have been elected to the NAE since 1964. Only thirty-seven women have been elected since 1964, three of whom are deceased, and one foreign associate. The list of the women elected is as follows:
National Academy of Engineering
| Member's Name |
Work Affiliation |
| Gilbreth, Lillian M. |
Gilbreth, Inc. |
| Hopper, Grace M. |
U.S. Department of the Navy |
| Dresselhaus, Mildred S. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ancker-Johnson, Betsy |
U.S. Department of Commerce |
| Davis, Ruth M. |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Sammet, Jean E. |
International Business Machines Corporation |
| Hicks, Beatrice |
Independent Consultant |
| Fischer, Irene K. |
Defense Mapping Agency |
| Conwell, Esther M. |
Xerox Corporation |
| Schwan, Judith A. |
Eastman Kodak Company |
| Napadensky, Hyla S. |
Illinois Institute of Technology Research |
| Widnall, Sheila E. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Allen, Frances E. |
International Business Machines Corporation |
| Brill, Yvonne C. |
International Maritime Satellite Organization |
| Good, Mary L. |
AlliedSignal Inc. |
| Roy, Della M. |
Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
| Edwards, Helen T. |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Liskov, Barbara H. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Simpson, Joanne |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Weertman, Julia R. |
Northwestern University |
| Conway, Lynn A. |
University of Michigan |
| Garmire, Elsa M. |
University of Southern California |
| Flanigen, Edith M. |
UOP |
| Drake, Elisabeth M. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Levelt Sengers, Johanna M. H. |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Marabini, Anna M. |
Institute for Mineral Processing |
| Savitz, Maxine L. |
AlliedSignal Aerospace Company |
| Benmark, Leslie A. |
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company |
| Graham, Susan L. |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Nightingale, Deborah S. |
AlliedSignal Aerospace Company |
| Peden, Irene C. |
National Science Foundation |
| Jones, Anita K. |
U.S. Department of Defense |
| Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, Doris |
University of Virginia |
| de Planque, E. Gail |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| Fitzroy, Nancy D. |
GE Corporate Research and Development |
| Pate-Cornell, M. Elisabeth |
Stanford University |
| Reichmanis, Elsa |
AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| Taylor, Kathleen C. |
General Motors Corporation |
| Borrone, Lillian C. |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| Chowdhry, Uma |
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company |
| Kalnay, Eugenia |
National Weather Service |
| Agogino, Alice M. |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Bajcsy, Ruzena K. |
University of Pennsylvania |
| LeMone, Margaret A. |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Nichols, Roberta J. |
Ford Motor Company |
| Sanford, Linda S. |
International Business Machines Corporation |
| Wright, Margaret H. |
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
| Hwang, Jennie S. |
H-Technologies Group, Inc. |
| Wheeler, Mary F. |
The University of Texas at Austin |
| Brierley, Corale L. |
Brierley Consultancy LLC |
| Higgins, Julia S. |
The Boeing Company |
| Selinger, Patricia G. |
IBM Almaden Research Center |
| Arnold, Frances H. |
California Institute of Technology |
| Etter, Delores M. |
U.S. Department of Defense |
| Leveson, Nancy G. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Schwartz, Shirley E. |
General Motors Research and Development Center |
| Wan, Rong-Yu |
Newmont Mining Corporation |
| Baranescu, Rodica A. |
Navistar International Transportation Corporation |
| Crawford, Natalie W. |
The RAND Corporation |
| Gast, Alice P. |
Stanford University |
| Jackson, Shirley A. |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Katsaros, Kristina B. |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| Kwolek, Stephanie L. |
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company |
| Lacasse, Suzanne |
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
| Lynch, Nancy A. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| David, Ruth A. |
ANSER (Analytic Services Inc.) |
| Dunbar, Bonnie J. |
NASA Johnson Space Center |
| Hu, Evelyn L. |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Kula, Maria-Regina |
Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf |
| Murray, Cherry A. |
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
| Weyuker, Elaine |
AT&T Labs Research |