Elayne Arrington

**Elayne Arrington** (an haife shi a  ) ƙwararriyar lissafi ce kuma injiniya ' yar Amurka. Ita ce mace 'yar Afirka ta farko da ta kammala karatun digiri na farko daga Makarantar Injiniya a Jami'ar Pittsburgh . Bayan ta sami digirin digirgir, ta ci gaba da gudanar da nazarin ayyukan jiragen saman Tarayyar Soviet a sansanin sojojin sama na Wright-Patterson .  

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
Elayne Arrington ta girma a West Mifflin, Pennsylvania . Ta kammala karatunta daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Homestead (wanda yanzu take Makarantar Sakandare ta Steel Valley ) a shekarar 1957 inda ta sami maki na biyu mafi girma a fannin lissafi (797 cikin 800).  Duk da cewa ta kammala a ajinta na farko, an hana Elayne damar gabatar da jawabin bankwana. Madadin haka, shugabannin makarantar sun ba wa shugaban aji wanda farare ne kuma namiji.

An ba Arrington shawarar samun cikakken tallafin karatu don yin karatun injiniyan injiniya a Jami'ar Pittsburgh. Duk da haka, mai tallafawa, Kamfanin Injin Mesta, ya janye tallafin karatunta, yana mai cewa dole ne a bai wa namiji kudin saboda mata "ba sa kammala shirye-shiryen injiniya." Duk da wannan hasashen, a shekarar 1961 Arrington ta zama mace 'yar Afirka ta farko da ta kammala karatun digiri daga Makarantar Injiniya ta Jami'ar Pittsburgh. A matsayinta na memba na Pi Tau Sigma, mai girmamawa a fannin injiniya. Ta tattauna yanayin cikas da ta fuskanta ga Rouvalis. 
{{Blockquote|"Some of [the barriers] may have been racial prejudice, but they didn't even have to get to racial because being a girl in engineering, being female, was enough."
Arrington ta ci gaba da samun digiri na biyu a fannin lissafi daga Jami'ar Dayton da ke Ohio, kuma yayin da take aiki a kan digirin digiri na biyu na Arrington, Charles Phelps Taft Fellow, ta kuma yi kwasa-kwasan lissafi a Jami'ar Oxford .   Ta sami digirin digirgir na uku a fannin lissafi a Jami'ar Cincinnati a shekarar 1974 tare da takardar digirin digirgir mai taken *Ƙungiyar P-Frattini ta Ƙungiyar Finite,* wacce Donald B. Parker ke kula da ita.  Ta zama mace ta 17 a Amurka 'yar asalin Afirka da ta sami digirin digirgir a fannin lissafi.

## Sana'a
An ɗauki Arrington aiki a matsayin injiniyan sararin samaniya a Sashen Fasaha na Ƙasashen Waje a Sansanin Sojojin Sama na Wright-Patterson da ke Dayton, Ohio .  A sansanin, ta yi nazari kan aikin jiragen saman Tarayyar Soviet .

A shekarar 1974 da sabuwar takardar shaidar digirin digirgir, ta koma Jami'ar Pittsburgh inda ta koyar a sashen lissafi da kididdiga. Arrington ta rage jadawalin aikinta a shekarar 2012, kuma ta yi ritaya gaba daya daga jami'ar a shekarar 2018.   

A shekara ta 2007, an nada ta a matsayin memba na kwamitin gudanarwa na Kwalejin Al'umma ta Allegheny County . 

A shekarar 2016, Arrington ta ɗauki darasi a Kwalejin Tauhidi ta Pittsburgh a Sabon Alkawari ta Girkanci "don ta iya karanta Littafi Mai Tsarki a cikin yaren da ya samo asali."  Ta ci gaba da karatun tauhidi a Jami'ar Pittsburgh kuma tana shirin kammala karatunta a shekarar 2021 tana da shekaru 81, don samun wani digiri na biyu, wannan a fannin nazarin tauhidi. 

## Kyaututtuka
A watan Afrilun 2007, Arrington ya sami lambar yabo ta musamman daga Majalisar Tsoffin Ɗaliban Afirka ta Amurka ta Jami'ar Pittsburgh. 

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