| Joan C. Sherman | |
| Birth Date: | 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Illinois |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Chemistry |
| Work Institution: | Harris Corporation |
| Alma Mater: | Northwestern University Florida Institute of Technology |
| Awards: | Space Coast Outstanding Woman Engineer (1994) |
Joan Czerniejewski Sherman is a scientist and Professor of Chemistry. She was considered a pathbreaker by becoming one of the first professors at Florida Institute of Technology (while it was Brevard Engineering College) and one of the first women hired by Radiation Incorporated[1] [2] She became the first woman technical director at Harris Corporation.[3] In 1994, the Society of Women Engineers named her Space Coast Outstanding Woman Engineer. The Town of Indialantic, Florida designated July 21, 2021 as “Joan C. Sherman Day”.[4]
Sherman was born in Illinois in 1932. She received Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Northwestern University in 1953.
She was a research chemist on the Evanston Fluoridation Study and a chemical engineer in the refining Research Department of Universal Oil Company.[5] In 1959, she began working for RCA Service Company in the photography lab of the Missile Test Project. In 1963, she began working at Radiation Incorporated and became a senior engineer.[6] While at Radiation Incorporated, she was a lead chemist at the Micro-Electronics laboratory, where she directed other technicians in development of microelectronics used in the early days of the Space Race.[2]