Women in the National Inventors Hall of Fame: The First 50 Years
暫譯: 國家發明家名人堂中的女性：首五十年

Ilene Busch-Vishniac is an acoustician, an advocate for women in STEM fields, an inventor, an author, and a C-suite business entrepreneur. She began her professional career at Bell Laboratories, where she was privileged to work with James E. West, a scientist awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. While at Bell Labs, her work on acoustic sensors and actuators led to seven US patents, one of which was named outstanding patent of the year by the company. She left Bell Labs for an academic position at The University of Texas, where she rose through the ranks to become the holder of an endowed chair. Her research led to an additional four US patents and many awards for research, teaching, and communication. Ilene left the University of Texas to assume her first administrative position as the Dean of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. From there she moved to the Provost and Vice President, Academic office at McMaster University and then the President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan. Upon retiring from academia, Ilene spent time as a higher education consultant, and then joined Sonavi Labs, Inc., a company spun out from research at Johns Hopkins University, as the Chief Innovation Officer. She later assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer as well. She retired from her positions at Sonavi Labs in December, 2022.

Lauren Busch is an operations research analyst with a bachelor's degree in systems science and engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in operations research from George Washington University. She began her career at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, where she analyzed the effectiveness of US Naval ship defense systems. She did mathematical modeling and optimization for a chemical manufacturer. Busch also spent many years as a government contractor developing natural gas price forecasts for the US Department of Energy for its Annual Energy Outlook. Additionally, she was a principal at a search engine optimization firm. Busch has been active as a community volunteer and currently serves as an advocate for young children in foster care through Dallas CASA.

Jill S. Tietjen, P.E., is an author (15 books published to date), international speaker, and electrical engineer. She is the co-author of the best-selling and award-winning books Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, and Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies. Her 2022 award-winning book was Over, Under, Around, and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles. Her 15th book, released in 2024, is Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service, the memoir of the 14th United States Surgeon General (and first woman) Dr. Antonia Novello (with whom she co-authored). A former blogger for the Huffington Post, she speaks around the country about women's contributions to history. Tietjen has conducted research into historical women around the world for the past thirty years. She is arguably one of the top historians on women across all fields of endeavor in the country. Tietjen works to bring women more visibility through her ceaseless nominations of historical and living women for national, state, and local awards. Her nominees have been successfully inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, and the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women. Two of her nominees have received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (awarded by the President of the United States). Tietjen is the CEO of Technically Speaking and is a nationally known advocate for attracting more women into scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematics careers. She is frequently invited to be the keynote speaker at engineering, science, and women's conferences and meetings around the country, and to speak at universities. In addition, she is often profiled and quoted in the media, her articles have been printed in a wide variety of publications, and she does regular television and radio appearances. Tietjen serves as an outside director on the board of Georgia Transmission Corporation and served on the board of Merrick & Company 2010-2021. She serves on the honorary board of the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. She has received numerous awards and has been inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, the Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame, and the National Academy of Construction.

伊琳·布施-維希尼亞克是一位聲學專家、女性在STEM領域的倡導者、發明家、作家以及C-suite商業企業家。她的職業生涯始於貝爾實驗室，並有幸與詹姆斯·E·韋斯特合作，該科學家曾獲得國家技術與創新獎章，並是全國發明家名人堂的成員。在貝爾實驗室期間，她在聲學傳感器和執行器方面的工作獲得了七項美國專利，其中一項被公司評選為年度傑出專利。她離開貝爾實驗室，前往德克薩斯大學擔任學術職位，並逐步晉升為一個捐贈講座的持有者。她的研究又獲得了四項美國專利，並獲得了多項研究、教學和溝通的獎項。伊琳離開德克薩斯大學，擔任約翰霍普金斯大學的工程學院院長，這是她的第一個行政職位。隨後，她轉到麥克馬斯特大學擔任教務長和副校長，然後成為薩斯喚省大學的校長和副校長。從學術界退休後，伊琳擔任高等教育顧問，隨後加入Sonavi Labs, Inc.，這是一家從約翰霍普金斯大學的研究中衍生出來的公司，擔任首席創新官。她後來也擔任首席運營官。她於2022年12月從Sonavi Labs的職位上退休。

勞倫·布施是一位運營研究分析師，擁有華盛頓大學聖路易斯分校的系統科學與工程學士學位，以及喬治華盛頓大學的運營研究碩士學位。她的職業生涯始於約翰霍普金斯大學應用物理實驗室，分析美國海軍艦艇防禦系統的有效性。她為一家化學製造商進行數學建模和優化。布施還在政府承包商工作多年，為美國能源部的年度能源展望開發天然氣價格預測。此外，她曾是搜索引擎優化公司的合夥人。布施積極參與社區志願服務，目前通過達拉斯CASA擔任寄養兒童的倡導者。

吉爾·S·提特詹，P.E.，是一位作家（至今已出版15本書）、國際演講者和電氣工程師。她是暢銷書和獲獎書籍《她的故事：改變美國的女性時間線》和《好萊塢：她的故事，女性與電影的插圖歷史》的共同作者。她2022年獲獎的書籍是《越過、繞過、穿過：名人堂成員如何克服障礙》。她的第15本書，將於2024年發行，名為《責任呼喚：從意外的服務生活中學到的教訓》，是第14任美國外科醫生（也是第一位女性）安東尼亞·諾維洛的回憶錄（她與之共同撰寫）。作為《赫芬頓郵報》的前博客作者，她在全國各地講述女性對歷史的貢獻。提特詹在過去三十年中對全球歷史女性進行了研究。她無疑是全國各個領域女性的頂尖歷史學家之一。提特詹致力於通過不斷提名歷史和現存女性來提高女性的能見度，這些提名者成功入選國家女性名人堂、全國發明家名人堂、科羅拉多女性名人堂、馬里蘭女性名人堂和德拉瓦女性名人堂。她的兩位提名者獲得了由美國總統頒發的國家技術與創新獎章。提特詹是Technically Speaking的首席執行官，也是全國知名的倡導者，致力於吸引更多女性進入科學、技術、工程和數學職業。她經常受邀在全國各地的工程、科學和女性會議及大會上擔任主題演講者，並在大學演講。此外，她經常在媒體上被報導和引用，她的文章在各種出版物上發表，並定期參加電視和廣播節目。提特詹擔任喬治亞傳輸公司的外部董事，並於2010年至2021年擔任Merrick & Company的董事會成員。她還在科羅拉多女性名人堂的榮譽董事會任職。她獲得了多項獎項，並被納入科羅拉多女性名人堂、科羅拉多作家名人堂和國家建設學院。