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Abstract

Raye Jean Montague (1935–2018) was a computer programmer and self-taught engineer who was at the forefront of modernizing naval architecture and naval engineering through the use of computer-aided design. In this biographical review, she is referred to as Montague, the surname she had for much of her professional life. Since she was a working engineer rather than a scholar, she did not create a publication record by which her achievements can be easily tracked, but her name appears in committee memberships, conference and working group proceedings, and other such interstices of computer-aided ship design. This key contributor to computer-aided design and manufacturing and to naval engineering is well worth getting to know.

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