Yvonne Clark

Yvonne Young Clark
Yvonne Young Clark, ca 1961
Born	(1929-04-13)April 13, 1929 Houston, Texas
Died	January 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 89) Nashville, Tennessee
Resting place	Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Nationality	American
Education	Howard University Vanderbilt University
Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical Engineering
Institutions	Frankford Arsenal US. Army ammunition plant RCA Camden NASA Westinghouse Defense and Space Center (now Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems) Ford glass plant Tennessee State University

Yvonne Y. Clark (born Georgianna Yvonne Young; April 13, 1929 – January 27, 2019) was an American engineer. She is the first woman to get a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University. She is the first woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University. She was the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University, then an emereti Professor.

Clark was the first African-American woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University in 1972, after having sent the first African-American students to their engineering department earlier.

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