Elizabeth Georgeson
Scotland’s first female engineering graduate.
Scotland’s first female engineering graduate.
Machine tools expert and Women’s Engineering Society President.
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
British electronics engineer
In 1921 she gained a BSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Edinburgh, and is believed to probably have been only the 2nd woman engineering graduate (after Elizabeth Georgeson in 1919).
The first woman to study engineering in a Scottish university.
British metallurgical chemist
American structural engineer
Pioneering engineer-pilot
English metallurgist