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Article: Madam President of Engineers
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 15, 1987
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"Nobody ever told me girls weren't supposed to be engineers,"
says Nancy Fitzroy, who has been one for more than 30 years. "Once in
a while you'd have a professor who'd say why don't you stay home and
save your father's money. But it wasn't all that hard."
Fitzroy is a pioneer and her list of accomplishments is
breathtaking. She is the first female president of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, serving a one-year term that ends in
June. She pilots airplanes and helicopters, and until two years ago,
owned her own twin-engine plane. She has been an engineer with the
General Electric Co. for 30 years, working in corporate research and
development, the company's center of advanced ...