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.
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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.
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.
María De La Luz Ostalé
One of the first female chemical engineering graduates from the Escuela de Ingeniería Química, in Valparaiso, Chile in 1955
Bijal Mathkar
Research & Innovation Director at Solvay India
María Morton
Trained as a chemical engineer at the former Tacuba National School of Sciences (ENCQ), now UNAM’s Faculty of Chemistry, graduating in 1926, she went on to work was in the food industries
Nkateko Mathonsi
Resources analyst with Investec, having come from 6 years managing Impala Platinum’s nickel plant operation.