Since the 1950s, she had been a member of the Society of Women Engineers.

Fellow and life member of the Society of Women Engineers.

She was the recipient of the Society of Women Engineers' Achievement Award in 1978.

In 1950, she was the first honorary member of the newly-created Society of Women Engineers.

In 1955 she received the Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers.

Advice on the Society for Women Engineers' Web site, swe.org, suggests anticipating and rehearsing difficult situations.

The organization was incorporated as the Society of Women Engineers two years later.

Longobardo is one of the founders of the Society of Women Engineers, which elected her a fellow in 1991.

According to the Society of Women Engineers, women and other minorities constituted approximately 16%-17% of engineering graduate students from 1990-2003.

Beatrice Hicks (1919-79), founder of the Society of Women Engineers in 1950.