all Technion graduates, male or female, to reach the rank of full professor. Marcelle Lafont graduated from l'école de chimie de Lyon as a chemical engineer in 1930, taking up work in the Bertholus airography factory in Caluire and later joining her family business, the Adolphe Lafont company. Yun Hao “Ruth” Feng studied chemical engineering at Ohio State University in the late 1920s, graduating with a PhD in 1931. She was the first female engineering PhD graduate in the United States. She later worked in the fiber industry in China. Ying Hsi Yuan trained as a Civil Engineer in Peiping in the 1930s and worked in bridge design in China before taking a postgraduate engineering degree in University of Liverpool in the 1940s, later working in Hong Kong. In 1931, Asta Hampe received her diploma in telecommunications engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, going on to work in a range of engineering work in the next two decades, although she was fired from her job for being a woman when the Nazis came to power in 1933. She later became a professor of economics. Marie Louise Compernolle was the first female Flemish chemical engineer, graduating in 1932 with a PhD in chemical engineering from Ghent University, the first female PhD in engineering from Ghent. Sonja Lapajne Oblak came the first Slovenian woman to graduate as a civil engineer from the Faculty of Technology in Ljubljana in 1932, calculating the world's first corridor-free, reinforced concrete school building in 1936, before becoming Slovenia' first urban planner. Isabel Ebel earned her degree in aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1932, the first woman to graduate there in the subject. The same year she helped plot Amelia Earhart's route for one of her record breaking flights, and Earhart repaid the favour by supporting Ebel's entry into Guggenheim School of Engineering at New York University, where Edel was also the first woman to study aeronautical engineering. Hürriyet Sırmaçek graduated from the Istanbul Technical University as Turkey's first bridge engineer in 1935, going on to have a long career as a bridge and structural engineer. In 1935, Gjuvara Noerieva graduated from the Metallurgical Faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, the first Azerbaijani woman to be a professional metallurgist, and the first Azerbaijani woman to work in the metallurgical industry. Virginia Sink graduated as a chemical engineer from the University of Colorado in