06/23/2026
Today we celebrate International Women's in Engineering Day. Currently, in Oregon, women make up about 16% of the Engineering Industry. Worse yet, in the Land Surveying Industry, this number drops to 3%. Many firms do not even have a female on staff besides maybe a single receptionist.
This year, MSS Inc. is sending their Survey Dept. Manager to the Women Surveyors Summit, this department has been female lead for over three years now.
And, until recent staff changes, our Structural Engineering Dept. had been female lead for several years as well.
We also participate in an unofficial advisory group with the local college to provide a space for female engineering and surveying students to ask questions of women who are already in the field.
Join us in celebrating the women whose work has been lost to history, the women who were just 'calculators', they women who have broken the ceilings and pushed the boundaries in the industry so that others can follow, and the women who still are doing this today.