AFIM UPRM

Empowering Female Success ⚙️Association of Females in Mechanical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus

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Meet our team for the 2023-2024 academic year!

It has been a very exciting year as we planned different activities an events to help grow the organization and its members!

We thank you for continued support and participation through the year.. We appreciate it immensely 🩷🩵

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We are hiring! 🫧

Submit your application before August 14th! We would love for you to be on our directive.

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We are hiring! 🫧

Submit your application before August 14th! We would love for you to be on our directive.

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Finally Fun Fact:

She is part of the Society of Women Engineers! 💜

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This week's post in our women in mechanical engineering series!
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Finals are approaching so use this post as motivation we as women can be extremely successful in this field too! 💫

Today we present Evelyn Wang an extremely successful mechanical engineer at MIT! ⚙️

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She is known for her research on solar-powered devices to extract drinkable water from the atmosphere! Which was named part of "Top 10 emerging technologies of 2017" 🎊

Since, she has won multiple awards and honors from the department of defense, the air force, ASME, etc.! 🏆🤍

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#engineers #womeninSTEM #WomenEmpowerment #womenintech #afim #uprm

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This week’s post in our women in Mechanical Engineering series!
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Through this series we explore women’s role in our field both in the past and in the present 💫💕

This weeks post is dedicated to:

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Later in 2002 she joined Space X where she worked on business development 📈

On December 2008 she was promoted when she secured the first commercial resupply services contract with NASA 👩‍🚀

Since then she has played a pivotal role in all of SpaceX development and success 💫🚀

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Her impact on engineering was later recognized in 1998 where the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology became the first engineering school in the country to be named for a woman ✨ and in 2011 where ASME established an award in her name! 🩷

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However through self learning and courses at Sibley College she earned the title of engineer and went on to expand her father’s buisness to Europe! 🌍She then left the buisness to her youngest brothers..

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She then became the president of the First National Bank 🏦 of Rochester here she engineered 👩‍🔧how to be able to provide affordable housing 🏠where she came up with new designs for such based on a new pouring method! This caught the attention of ASME where she was elected! ⚙️💫

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She quickly took the company to the next level and stepping stone to making it what Gleason Corp. is today ✨ At 19 Kate was the first woman to enroll in the Mechanical Arts program at Cornell 🎓 unfortunately due to hard times she wasn’t able to finish her degree.

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Catherine Anselm Gleason was the oldest daughter of William Gleason who was the owner of a machine shop ⚙️. From an early age Kate was fascinated by machines and would read and study them on her free time 📚. When her older brother died at a young age she took over the business.

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Third post in our women in mechanical engineering series!!
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Today we present Kate Gleason the first woman to be part of ASME the american society of mechanical engineers 💫

Tune in every week for a new role model to follow 💖

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Later in life she fought for women’s rights and railed against discriminatory practices targeted at women 🤍✊🏼

She even wrote an influential essay called “A Wife’s Disabilities” on 1899 fighting for such 💫

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Second post in our women in mechanical engineering series!
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Meet Emily Warren Roebling without her the Brooklyn Bridge wouldn’t have been completed! ✨🌉

Tune every monday for our weekly shoutout to women that have made history in our field!! 🩷🩵

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Washington Roebling father was the one who started the work for the Brooklyn Bridge. When he died of tetanus he took over.

He then later fell ill with caisson disease and when he could not longer take on the project Emily stepped up 🤍✨