Engineering Archives - Page 12 of 34

Valeria Blakey

Possibly the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering in Australia, Valeria Blakey gained her Bachelors in Applied Science (Industrial Chemistry) from The University of Queensland, in 1950.

Tuanku Zara Salim

Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.

Temenuzhka Krumova Budinova-Petrova

Bulgarian professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, researching the processing of fossil fuels, biomass and methods for synthesizing high-tech carbon materials.

Suzanne Mathieu

French chemical engineer and advocate for girls in STEM

Sofia Zarafidou

One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering

The first woman automotive engineer at Chrysler; by 1950 she was the Group Leader in the Chemical Research Department and worked on the LA smog project from 1957 until 1962 when she co-developed Chrysler’s Cleaner Air Package.

Dr Lilia Ann Abron

Lilia Ann Abron’s chemistry BS and sanitary engineering MS led to her PhD on reverse osmosis to remove DDT and Aldrin from water and her career on a wide range of environmental engineering and sustainability projects.

Winifred Burks-Houck

Chemical engineer and specialist on environmental hazards and minimizing potential threats to worker safety. She was the first female president of National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)(1993 – 2001), which was founded in 1972.