Women in STEMM: Technology & Engineering

This is a biography which explores the career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers.

"A project [submitted] as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Education degree in Higher Education."

Some truths are better left undiscovered ... Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos's entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away, what made his father lose hope, what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas's departure, it's got something to do with why Casales was found dead in his hotel room--and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past isn't so easy. There is more to Casales's death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes ...

It's 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland's largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees and thwarting a federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault's safe deposit boxes were lost. In the year's since, Cleveland's wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank's sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the shadow of the past deeper into the vault-- and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.

She has the power to change everything. Rafaele Falcone runs his luxury auto empire and private life with the same ice-cold ruthlessness. Emotions play no part in his decisions, and he always demands the best, so he doesn't hesitate to ask brilliant engineer Samantha Rourke to join his company--even though he walked away from her years before. That sexy Italian accent still sends shivers down her spine, but gutsy Sam knows it's not just about her impossible desire to feel his hands on her body once again. Because Falcone is about to discover her deepest secret--one that will send his world into a spin!

Mackenna Scott has built roads and bridges throughout wild, lush Indonesia, proving unquestionably her ability as an engineer, but when her new project lags, her boss, Brock Hampton, dares to challenge her as a professional--and as a woman. They clash inevitably and repeatedly. Yet Brock's raw power inflames Mackenna's senses. His work-roughened hands sear her flesh. As they forge a tempestuous union in teeming Asian jungles and, later, on dazzling Australian beaches, Mackenna strives to tame this tiger of a man. Then, abruptly, Brock vanishes from her life, leaving her angry and bereft. Is his departure the betrayal it seems or a final proof of his love?

When she discovers a black vintage journal hidden among a set of Jane Austen novels in a funky little shop, straight-laced engineer Nicola James is stunned when, while writing in the journal, it writes her back and advises her to have a red-hot romance with a sexy Scottish musician

Engineer Tory Travers reluctantly worked with police detective David Alvarez in Engineered for Murder to determine who wanted to kill her so badly that either a bullet or a wrecking ball would suffice. Then, in Framework for Death, she helped Alvarez uncover the cause of a residential structural collapse concealing two bodies. Now Tory needs David's help again when she discovers a woman's body has been stuffed in a manhole while she's inspecting a community development site -- and she wants to help in order to speed things up: the city officials who contracted her company to inspect the storm sewers will undoubtedly hold up her check until after the case has been solved.

Answers are few and far between when El Paso Police Detective David Alvarez is called to investigate an unexplained collapse in the residence of an affluent matron. When Alvarez calls in engineer Tory Travers to figure out what happened to cause the collapse, the media turns the case into a circus. Soon Alvarez is dealing with an alleged drug king, his DEA shadow, a mystery woman who unapologetically works outside the law, and Tory's inclination to go searching for solutions on her own. While Tory and her foreman look for the builder of the secret room, her son and the infant son of Alvarez's partner are threatened if they don't drop the case.

A Holy War or Jihad has been declared, changing life for everyone. Two women engineers suddenly find themselves drawn into this international drama as they struggle to complete the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft. Their muddled private lives add to the tension. Tisha O'Brien has an abiding faith in God, and "those roots of middy blouses and pleated skirts, prayer books and incense-filled churches went deep." This faith is tested when she falls in love with a married man. Audra Shields sees herself as a modern Lady Chatterly, "liberated but not forsaking breeding, intellect, or femininity." She begins to question her lifestyle when she becomes involved with a dangerous stranger. Both women struggle to sort out their personal problems while racing the clock to finish a project fraught with sabotage and murder.