University of Toronto Engineering Society - Skule Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Basketball Rutt Kajak Debbie Goodings Nora Stewart Cathy Field Nancy Ireland Aviva Kott Lilly Chi Lee Ellie Mittias Jean O’Hanley Paula Tsuruoka Curling Dana Dayton Debbie Goodings Volleyball Rutt Kajak Edita Debbie Goodings Nora Stewart Nancy Ireland Ellie Mittias Lilly Chi Lee Amal Mittias Harriet Waterman Aviva Kott Jean O’Hanley Paula Tsuruoka Hockey Tina Schwering Sue Salari Holly Holly Andrea Sinclair Nora Steward Cathy Field Dana Dayton Anna Kott Nancy Ireland Edita Petrik Barb Ciemnewski Paula Tsuruoka Rutt Kajak Jean O’Hanley Marta Ecsedi POSITIONS HELD BY PRESENT UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN Engineering Society: 73 Grad Ball Committee - Cathy Field 73 Social Committee - marta Ecsedi Women’s Athletic Commission - Nancy Ireland LGMB - Harriet Waterman, Andrea Sinclair, Silvia Gibb, Tina Schwering, Holly Hall. Class Rep - Andrea Sinclair

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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING Long before Women’s Lib even started to take form women were full-fledged practising engineers. Although it has never been a very popular occupation for women on this continent, the number of North American women engineers is definitely increasing and U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering has shared in fostering and encouraging new trends for women in engineering fields from the earliest period. In 1912 our first woman graduate received her B.A. Sc. There were four women enrolled by 1918. The trickle had begun and now there appears to be a new upsurge in the number of women in pursuit of the Iron Ring (wearing one that is, not marrying one). Perhaps it is a reflection of the change in technology away from beer and brawn towards more sophisticated methods for problem solving. The female is becoming more and more an integral part of engineering - a part we shouldn’t have to get along without. The current figures for female enrolment are 35 in 1971-1972 and now in 1972-1973 there are 40. Every en ntion that the women that have entered the Faculty of Engineering at U. of T., although outnumbered, have not been outclassed. For example Elsie Gregory MacGill was one of our earlier graduates (1927) in Electrical Engineering, famous for her work in the aeronautical field (responsible for ‘winterized’ Hurricane, Maple Leaf Trainer II and numerous other aircrafts). She has gone on to open her own office as a Consulting Engineer (Aeronautics). Our undergraduate women are not a docile minority either. Their program of activities are both energy and time consuming. At the beginning of each school year a dinner is organized to make efforts to see that “frosh” women have an opportunity to meet other women students in engineering Alumnae Skule-women are welcome to participate in this dinner also. This year the women were given representation on the Engineering Athletic Society by the appointment of one of them to a new post - Women’s Athletic Commissioner. The representation was well deserved as active participation by many of the girls allows them to sport volleyball, basketball, hockey and curling interfaculty teams - this year even broomball was added as a special event. Some of the girls participated in class teams also for the Centennial competitions. 18 of the women participated in the Ecole Polytechnique Exchange - an active weekend for them as our four sports teams were made up of practically all the same girls. Some of our female undergraduates have been or are presently active members of the LGMB, the BFC (Diane Longbottom, Industrial 7T 1 , was once their chief), the Engineering Society, Course Clubs, Departmental Committees and the Faculty Council. The experiences of the young women in our engineering school reinforces the view that the female student is encouraged, treated as an equal and given every opportunity to move towards her career goals. Our women graduates are proving the potential of women engineers in the working world, but there is still room for more women in our faculty and it is up to us to encourage them to give it a try.

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Leg of Eiffel (A Statics nightmare) Arc de Triumph CIVIL ENGINEERING To whom do we owe the seven wonders of the world? The CIVIL ENGINEER. ..But these are the least of our achievements. Since they were constructed our forebearers have pushed aside the boundaries of our field, not without success, until now its complexities and its breadth are astounding. f Building design in any material, fluid mechanics, hydrology, water supply, wastewater removal and treatment, soil mechanics, foundations, tunnelling, earth structures, transportation planning, traffic engineering, design of roads and highways, urban and regional planning, surveying, air photo interpretation, photogrammetry, systems building, advanced composite materials, computer programming, project management and administration - all of these are home ground to the CIVIL ENGINEER. This is why you find us everywhere, from the commonplace outside your door, to the Eighth Wonder of the World, the soon to be built Com- munications Tower for Metrd Center, which will be the World’s tallest structure. Some of our achievements are on these pages. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENT SECTION. Toronto’s City Hall Skylon at Niagara Falls Even Germany hasn ' t solved the traffic problem (Autobahn at Zero MPH) Cathedral and Tower at Pisa (Well everybody isn ' t perfect)