Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger service and paved the path for future female civil engineers.

Despite a very low level of women in engineering overall — around 5.6 per cent of the workforce — the survey of 4,365 engineers revealed that the gender balance is unusually positive, or at least ...

Marilyn Jorgenson Reece, the first woman in California to be registered as a civil engineer and the designer of the San Diego-Santa Monica freeway interchange in Los Angeles, has died.

As the world celebrates International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) on 23 June 2025, AECOM proudly shines a spotlight on two inspiring engineers, Nyiko Khosa and Kerisha Govender. Their stories ...

Of the 60 to 80 students that take her freshman civil engineering class, only 10 to 12 are generally women. “In civil engineering, it’s really pathetic,” she said.

The first women were admitted to what was then the School of Engineering in 1943, and since then, women engineers educated at Drexel have been making an impact on both the college and the industry. In ...

As a young girl in Pakistan, Ramla Qureshi, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, dreamt of being a fighter pilot, and then a lab scientist.   ...

A day aiming to "inspire, encourage and empower" female civil engineering students has been held in Bristol. Dr Adrienn Tomor, from the University of the West of England (UWE), set up Engineering ...

But the University of North Florida's first all-female senior civil engineering team designed a new water distribution system for the community, which was built by local workers and began ...

At 35, Captain Anaise Kangeyo is one of Rwanda’s few female pilots, commanding the Bombardier Q400, a twin-engine turboprop aircraft for short to medium-haul flights. Yet her nearly decade-long career ...

Civil engineering has proved increasingly attractive for women, despite a low level of women in engineering as a whole. Evelyn Adams looks at why this might be.