Women's Contribution to Science and Technology Through Icwes Conferences

本書討論了國際女性工程師和科學家國際會議（ICWES）系列的遺產，該系列跨越了二十世紀下半葉和二十一世紀初。該書首先討論了在當時女性工程師和科學家稀少的情況下，一群女性於1964年6月在紐約組織了一次會議，吸引了486名女性參加。她們展示了她們的科學成就，並討論了如何吸引更多女性從事STEM領域。這一努力是由志願者進行的，持續了59年的ICWES會議。作者們討論了組織者、主辦社團、科學內容、時間上的變化以及持續性的重要性。作者們還討論了全球參與的重要性，通過過去在美國、英國、意大利、波蘭、法國、印度、象牙海岸、匈牙利、日本、加拿大和韓國等地舉辦的會議來展示。作者們還概述了加拿大非營利組織國際女性科學和工程會議（INWES）的發展如何幫助這一努力，該組織確保了會議系列的持續進行。Claire Deschênes和Monique Frize確保了會議數據庫的數字化，現在可在渥太華大學圖書館的加拿大女性STEM檔案館中使用，希望研究人員能繼續探索這一豐富的數據庫。作為《女性科學和工程》書系的重要組成部分，本書希望激勵女性和男性、女孩和男孩們學習和從事STEM領域的工作。這本書在歷史上具有重要意義，因為它記錄了女性在STEM領域通過遠見和領導力創造的獨特冒險。她們的努力建立了網絡和分享她們在科學、技術和性別問題上的貢獻的方式。

Monique (Aubry) Frize was the first women to obtain an engineering degree at the University of Ottawa (BASc EE) in 1966. She obtained an MPhil and DIC at Imperial College in London, an MBA at U de Moncton, and a doctorate at Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Frize worked for 18 years as a biomedical engineer in hospitals; and 20 years as a full Professor in electrical engineering, at UNB while holding the national Chair for women in engineering (1989-1997); and at Carleton and University of Ottawa (1997-2010), while holding the Ontario Chair for women in science and engineering (1997-2002). Frize published six books and over 200 articles in peer-refereed conference proceedings and journals. She was awarded the Order of Canada, five honorary degrees, and inducted as fellow of IEEE, CAE, CMBES and Engineers Canada. She was awarded the Gold Medal of Professional Engineers Ontario in 2000. Monique Frize gave over 400 talks in Canada and in several other countries between 1990 and 2010.

Claire Deschênes is currently Professor Emerita at Laval University. In 1989, she was hired as the first woman professor in engineering at the Faculty of sciences and engineering of Laval University (Canada), where she founded the Hydraulic Machine Laboratory (LAMH) and the research Consortium on hydraulic machines. Prof. Deschênes is member of the Order of Canada, Knight of Ordre national du Québec and Fellow of Engineers Canada. In 2015, she received the NSERC Synergy Award for innovation - two or more industries, on behalf of the Consortium in Hydraulic Machines, and in 2020 the Prix du Quebec Lionel-Boulet for her remarkable career in industrial research. She received two Honorary Doctorates, from University of Ottawa and Université de Sherbrooke. Claire Deschênes was holder of one the NSERC Chair for women in science and engineering in Quebec from 1997 to 2005. As such, she was member or Chair of numerous boards. She is co-founder of three non-profit organizations of women in S&E: Affestim, CIWES (former INWES-ERI) and INWES. Over her career, she published more than 100 scientific papers and conferences. Over 50 graduated students and 80 undergrad students were trained in LAMH for the benefit of the Canadian industry.

Ruby Heap is currently Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa's Department of History. During her career, Ruby committed herself to the development of Francophone and Anglophone scholarship and student training in the fields of educational history and of women's and gender history. She co-founded (1989) and co-edited the journal Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, and was appointed in 1999 as Founding Director of the University of Ottawa's Institute of Women's Studies. She then served as associate dean at the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and, more recently, as associate vice-president, research. During this period, Ruby also began researching the still largely unknown history of women in Canadian engineering. Through her involvement with the INWES Education and Research Institute (INWES-ERI), she also advocated the interdisciplinary study of women in STEM, and called for the creation of a national Archive devoted to their history in Canada, a project that came to fruition in 2018. Ruby Heap is the recipient of the Professional Engineers of Ontario's President Award (2010), of the Order of Academic Palms from the French Republic (2016) and of the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Prize in Gender Studies (2018).

莫妮克（奧布里）弗里茲是1966年在渥太華大學獲得工程學學位的第一位女性。她在倫敦的帝國學院獲得了MPhil和DIC學位，在蒙克頓大學獲得了MBA學位，在荷蘭鹿特丹的鹿特丹伊拉斯謨斯大學獲得了博士學位。弗里茲在醫院擔任生物醫學工程師18年，並在新布倫維克大學擔任電氣工程的全職教授20年，同時擔任國家工程師女性主席（1989-1997）；在卡爾頓大學和渥太華大學（1997-2010）擔任安大略省女性科學和工程主席（1997-2002）。弗里茲出版了六本書和200多篇同行評審的會議論文和期刊文章。她獲得了加拿大勳章、五個榮譽學位，並成為IEEE、CAE、CMBES和工程師加拿大的會士。她於2000年獲得安大略省專業工程師金牌獎。莫妮克·弗里茲在1990年至2010年間在加拿大和其他幾個國家發表了400多場演講。

克萊爾·德尚是拉瓦爾大學的名譽教授。1989年，她被聘為拉瓦爾大學科學與工程學院的第一位女性工程教授，並在那裡創立了水力機械實驗室（LAMH）和水力機械研究聯盟。德尚教授是加拿大勳章成員，魁北克國家勳章騎士和加拿大工程師會士。2015年，她代表水力機械聯盟獲得了NSERC創新獎 - 兩個或更多行業。2020年，她因在工業研究方面的卓越職業生涯而獲得了魁北克里昂·布萊特獎。她獲得了渥太華大學和舍布魯克大學的兩個榮譽博士學位。克萊爾·德尚從1997年到2005年擔任魁北克省NSERC女性科學和工程主席。作為此職位的持有人，她是許多委員會的成員或主席。她是三個非營利組織的共同創始人，這些組織致力於推動科學和工程領域的女性：Affestim、CIWES（前INWES-ERI）和INWES。在她的職業生涯中，她發表了100多篇科學論文和會議論文。超過50名研究生和80名本科生在LAMH接受培訓，造福於加拿大工業。

魯比·希普目前是渥太華大學歷史系的名譽教授。在她的職業生涯中，魯比致力於法語和英語學術研究和學生培訓，專注於教育史、婦女和性別史領域。她是《教育歷史研究》雜誌（Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation）的共同創辦人（1989年），並於1999年被任命為渥太華大學婦女研究所的創始主任。她還曾擔任研究生和博士後研究院副院長，最近擔任副總裁（研究）。在此期間，魯比還開始研究加拿大工程領域中仍然鮮為人知的婦女歷史。通過她與INWES教育和研究機構（INWES-ERI）的合作，她還倡導對STEM領域中的婦女進行跨學科研究，並呼籲在加拿大建立一個致力於婦女歷史的國家檔案館，這個項目於2018年實現。魯比·希普獲得了安大略省專業工程師協會的主席獎（2010年），法國共和國的學術棕櫚勳章（2016年）和加拿大皇家學會的烏蘇拉·富蘭克林性別研究獎（2018年）。