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During his visit, he spoke about the need for industry and subsequently, the need for male and female engineers following Britain's 200 year rule in India. [2] Gupta enrolled in engineering college and became the first female admitted for engineering at that school. [2] As the first female engineering student, she faced many challenges.
In 1960, women made up around 1% of all engineers, and by the year 2000, women made up 11% of all engineers, for an increase of 0.25 percentage points per year. At this rate, one would not expect 50-50 gender parity in engineering to occur until the year 2156.
In 1953 the Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) of London elected her to be an associate member, and promoted her to full member in 1966. [4] Lalitha was the only female engineer from India to have attended the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientist (ICWES) in New York in 1964. [5] [3]
Engineering portal; India portal; This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian engineers. ... 21st-century Indian women engineers (27 P)
The percentage of master's degrees in engineering awarded to women increased steadily from 0.6 percent in 1966 to 22.9 percent in 2008. The percentage of doctoral degrees in engineering awarded to women during the same period increased from 0.3 percent to 21.5 percent. [116]
Statue of Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. In 1953, after obtaining her PhD degree, she returned to India and became a faculty member at the IISc Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, later saying that she taught "electromagnetic theory, electron tube circuits, microwave technology, and radio engineering". [3]
Bhagat was assistant professor of civil engineering and head of the Heavy Structures Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai for much of the 1960s. In 1970, she and her husband founded their own firm, Bhagat Engineering; they also founded Quadricon, a bridge construction firm specializing in a patented prefabricated modular design.
Pages in category "Women's engineering colleges in India" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .