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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

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.

Dr Marie Louise Compernolle

Marie Louise Compernolle (1909– 2005) was the first female Flemish chemical engineer.

Maria Elisabeth Stellwag-Bes

Considered to be the first woman to receive an engineering diploma (1904) in the Netherlands, as the first female student at TUDelft

María Cegarra Salcedo

The woman considered to be Spain’s first female to graduate in chemistry was María Cegarra Salcedo (1899-1993) but she is better known for her later career as a poet.