Rosemary West
Women’s Engineering Society president and pioneering computer engineer.
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Ruth Pirret
British metallurgist and corrosion specialist
Sheila Leather
She was an amateur engineer in her own time and in 1940 she was one of the first women trainees on the courses run by the Women’s Engineering Society at the Beaufoy Institute in London to prepare women for engineering war work.
Maria Watkins
Austrian-British electrical engineer and Women’s Engineering Society President in 1980-81; in 1984 donated the Watkins Medal to the society to be awarded to the best female engineering graduate of the year.
Theresa E Wallach
Engineer, motorcycle racer, adventurer and author.
Kate Maslen
British aeronautical researcher.
Katharine Parsons
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Muriel Glauert
British mathematician and aerodynamicist
Dr Winifred Hackett
Having been involved with the Women’s Engineering Society since 1929, in 1946 she became President.