Women in UCLA Eng
Women in Science
Women in Eng
Facts & Figures
Gen Eng Knowledge
100
Who is the first female dean at UCLA Samueli?
Dr. Jayathi Murthy
100
Who was the 1st American woman in space?
Sally Ride
100
Who was the first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
100
American women make __ cents for every dollar earned by men.
82
100
What is the component that stores energy in a magnetic field?
Inductor
200
Who is the director of WE@UCLA?
Dr. Audrey Pool O’Neal
200
Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
200
Who was the actress and inventor who introduced frequency hopping?
Hedy Lamarr
200
Women make up __% of the STEM workforce.
26
200
What is the process of joining 2 or more metal components together?
Soldering or welding
300
What % of undergrad engineering majors were women in 2022?
31
300
Who was the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes in science?
Marie Curie
300
Who invented the first computer compiler?
Grace Hopper
300
__% of CEOs are women.
24
300
What is the force that acts against an object's direction of motion in fluid/air?
Drag
400
Alissa Park, Current Dean of UCLA Samueli
400
Who worked as a ‘human computer’ for NASA?
Katherine Goble Johnson
400
Who was the 1st female Black engineer at NASA?
Mary Jackson
400
__% of doctoral degrees were awarded to women in 2022.
55
400
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
500
What year did Barbara Wynn become the first woman to graduate from UCLA Samueli (which started in 1945)?
1948
500
Who received the Nobel Prize for inventing CRISPR-Cas9?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier
500
Margaret Hamilton
500
Out of 2700 members of the National Academy of Engineering, __ are women.
320
500
What is the chemical formula of glucose?
C6H12O6