Engineering Archives - Page 6 of 34

Dr Jessie Dorehill Crampton Mole

British chemical engineer whose early work was mainly concerned with benzenes and phenyls but post-WW2 she was also working on processes producing materials for the electrical and electronics industries, such as condensers, dielectrics and materials for batteries. From 1950 she was a Civil Service Scientific Officer at the Ministry of Supply’s Atomic Energy Division, and later at the Atomic Research Establishment, where she was Assistant to the Director until she retired in 1975

Helen S Crooks

Ohio State University can claim some very early women chemical engineers, including Helen S. Crooks (BSc 1923)

Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova

Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova (b. 1936) at the University of Sofia researched corrosion- and wear-resistant coatings for steel.

Dr Mojirade Monsurat Oloruntoba

Research and Development Officer at Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, one of the institutes of Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure

Modupeola Oluremilekun Kasim

Probably Africa’s earliest modern woman in chemical engineering, Engr. (Mrs.) Modupeola Oluremilekun Kasim BSC, MSc, FNSE, (1945-2021) gained her degree in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University, followed by an MSc in Operations Research (1975).

Meghan Ireland

Chemical engineer Meghan Ireland is Chief Blender at the WhistlePig distillery in New England, managing the whiskey from barrel to bottle.

Sub-Lieutenant Masego Mosupye

The South African Navy’s first female engineering officer on the chemical engineering side

Dr Mary Davidson Cameron

Believed to have been New Zealand/Aotearoa’s first female engineering academic. She later helped set up the Food Technology Research Centre, an academia/industry knowledge exchange centre.

Mary Bucher

Chemical engineer who earned her MSc from Ohio State University in 1930

Dr Marlene Kanga

The third woman to graduate in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay; when she was appointed as the president of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (2017-19) it was the first time any chemical engineer had taken that role.