Re: Donuts

On 15/01/2025 7:03 am, brian wrote:

In message <vm4rqp$29ao0$2@dont-email.me>, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> writes

I met quite a few female programmers. Female hardware engineers were remarkably rare -

 On my last project at work. We had two female hardware engineers, both analogue electronics - now there's something.  They  baked me a cake on my retirement on my 65th Birthday.
 At a meeting we were discussing the  finish of the electronics box. One of ladies wanted it to be pink The mechanical engineer explained in all seriousness, why it  had to be black . I was with her on it as most paints in the IR  are black.
 We had quite a few  female optical and laser  engineers  whose backgrounds were physics, and a female chemist.

Female chemists haven't been remarkable since Marie Curie.
When I was getting my Ph.D. in physical chemistry several of the other graduate students were female, and my own mother had B.Sc. in chemistry, and would have had a M.Sc. if WW2 hadn't got in the way.

I don''t recall any in mechanical engineering or digital electronics - FPGA and the like.

FPA's are a relatively recent introduction - we using small programmable parts in 1980's but the bigger parts didn't show up until the 1990s.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney