SWE Archives NEWS

Petticoats & Slide Rules Goes Virtual

By April 2004 the traveling exhibit, Petticoats & Slide Rules: SWE, A History of Women Engineers, will become available as a multi-media interactive cd-rom. By translating the informational content of the traveling exhibit into the digital environment, SWE Archives offers the opportunity for members, educators, and the general public to ‘experience’ the exhibit in a new and dynamic way. Using nearly all of the images from the traveling exhibit and including such special features as oral history clips from several pioneering women in engineering, the cd-rom takes the viewer on an exciting journey through a comprehensive history of the first American engineering society dedicated to women.