About Monique Frize
Monique Frize (1942-) is a Canadian researcher and engineer in the field biomedical sciences. She was the first women to study engineering at the University of Ottawa and she graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering). Later on, she went on to obtain a Master in Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (Engineering in Medicine) at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London (United Kingdom), a Master of Business Administration at the University of Moncton (New Brunswick), and a doctorate from Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) (ARCS, 2018).
In 1985, she became the first Chair of the Division of Clinical Engineering for the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) and in 1989, she was appointed the first holder of the national Northern Telecom/NSERC Chair for women in engineering at the University of New Brunswick. In 1997, Carleton University appointed her as a professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and, at the same time, the University of Ottawa also appointed her as a professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering. She was inducted as Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993 (ARCS, 2018).
Throughout her career, Monique Frize has consistently encouraged young women through numerous campaigns to study engineering. She published more than 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and published several books such as The Bold and the Brave: A history of women in science and engineering (2009) and Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe (2013). She is also a founding member of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) and was its president between 2002 and 2008. In 2007, she also founded INWES Education and Research Institute (ERI) (ARCS, 2018).
The 3.5-inch floppy disks used for the digitization and preservation project come from the Monique Frize fonds housed at the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections. However, since it was impossible to know the content of the diskettes, they were not yet accessioned with the rest of the fonds.
Below are two files recovered from one of the digitized floppy disks.
