Violet B. Haas

[3] She met her future husband, Felix Haas [Wikidata], a fellow mathematician at MIT.

[4] Haas was selected as an American Association of University Women Vassie James Hill Fellow in 1951.

[2] Due to nepotism rules (her husband was a fellow mathematician), Haas took a position in electrical engineering rather than mathematics.

[5] For 15 years, Haas was the counselor of the Purdue University student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

[7] She received the 1978 Helen B. Schleman Medallion Award for her service and encouragement of women in academic and professional areas.

She was also the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) representative to the IEEE conference on decision and control.

[5] Mathematician and colleague Pamela G. Coxson stated that Haas' involvement "increased the participation of the mathematical community in these two annual conferences.

[1][2] Haas and sociologist Carolyn C. Perrucci co-edited the book Women in Scientific and Engineering Professions.

[1] Haas was unconscious from a brain tumor from 1984 until her death on the morning of January 21, 1986, at St. Elizabeth Hospital.