[citation needed] In 1945, Wyman received a Regents Scholarship and was accepted into the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan as one of seven female students.
[1] While still a junior in college, Wyman worked on a missile guidance project at the Willow Run Research Center.
Naval Proving Ground where Grace Hopper was working on similar problems and discovered they were using a prototype of a programmable Mark II computer developed at Harvard University.
She moved to Minneapolis and began a long management career at Honeywell, eventually serving as chief information officer.
As an aside to this, she contended to an interviewer in 1979, that Wyman endowed the Irma M. Wyman Scholarship at the University of Michigan's Center for the Education of Women to support women in engineering, computer science and related fields,[2] and she endowed two Irma M. Wyman internships at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library for women who are juniors and seniors at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
Irma's persistent advocacy for women in computer science and leadership reflects those of her early career mentor, Grace Hopper: The most important thing I've accomplished ... is training young people.