2025 IEEE History Week

Title: “The Pioneering Women of Electrical Engineering” Date: Wed., 22 October 2025 Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am ET (New York Time) Speaker, Allison Marsh, Ph.D., Senior Member of IEEE Description: Historian Allison Marsh has spent the past year going page by page through the journals of the IEEE and its predecessor societies to uncover the name of the pioneering women from the early decades of electrical engineering. Hear the stories of Edith Clarke, Mabel MacFerran Rockwell, and many other lesser known women who helped shape the discipline.  Along the way, consider what it means to be an electrical engineer, and who does or does not count in that category. Speaker: Allison Marsh, Ph.D., is a senior member of the IEEE and a contributing editor to IEEE Spectrum.  She is an associate professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and the co-director of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society.  During the 2024-25 academic year, she had an NEH fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City where she researched women in the early decades of the AIEE, the IRE, and the IEEE.