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The Human Face of Engineering

Engineers. . .a sea of white faces, all male, all in white shirts with dark ties. This was both the image and the reality of mission control at NASA in the 1960s. We were reminded of that history in October 2007 during events and reporting surrounding the 50th anniversary of Sputnik Perhaps it takes such a stark reminder to realize how far we have come in increasing the diversity of engineering and also how far we have to go before the task is accomplished! Many in that room were drawn there by the challenge to "put a man (sic) on the moon and return him safely to the earth"; others by a sense of patriotism born of the need to "defeat the enemy." What is striking is who was missing.

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