Widnall, Sheila E.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains edited transcripts of life history (through 1976/1977) interviews conducted by Shirlee Sherkow of the MIT Oral History Program with nine women scientists and engineers. The interviews explored the women's early home environments, school and research experiences, roles as spouses and parents, and views on problems confronting women scientists and engineers in the workplace. Interviewees were: Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, electrical engineer and...

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This collection documents Dr. Shelia Widnall’s work as the Associate Provost at MIT. Materials document her responsibilities around academic integrity, including conflict of interest policy, federal relations, faculty retirement, tenure and promotion policies, and international educational programs. In addition, there is some correspondence and speeches related to her work.

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This collection documents some of the work of Sheila Widnall, who was faculty in the School of Engineering and served as Associate Provost. Materials in the collection span the 1970s-2000s.

The 16.07 Dynamics course materials are from the Stellar teaching course websites from the course Widnall taught from 2004-2015,2017. They are all digital files and primarily consist of PDF documents and Matlab files.