Polytechnic University of Milan in Electrotechnics in 1924. In 1921, Sébastienne Guyot (1894-1941) graduated in mechanics and engineering from the Central School of Paris in the first year group to allow women as students. She became an aeronautical engineer, ending her career as Head of the Helicopter Service at the French Arsenal de l'Aéronautique. In 1922, Marguerite Massart graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles with a degree in civil engineering, making her the first woman to qualify as an engineer in Belgium. She later set up a successful foundry business in Ghent and introduced a desalinisation project and early solar panels in the first hotel on Sal Island in Cape Verde. Hélène Mallebrancke was the first female Belgian civil engineering graduate from University of Ghent, later keeping the Allied telecommunications networks in the Ghent region operational against huge odds during World War Two for which she was decorated posthumously by both the French government and the Belgian authorities. Kathleen M. Butler was the first member of staff appointed to the Sydney Harbour Bridge team in 1922, acting as the project manager for the large international engineering project in Australia. On 30 June 1923, Marie Schneiderová-Zubaníková became the first woman in Czechoslovakia to graduate in civil engineering, from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Germaine Benoit graduated in chemical engineering in 1923 from the Institut de chimie appliquée and on 1 June 1924 joined the Pasteur Institute. In 1925, Annette Ashberry was the first woman to be elected to the UK Society of Engineers and delivered the first address by a woman to the Society's members on 1 November 1926. In 1927, Elsie Eaves was the first woman admitted to full membership to the American Society of Civil Engineers. Martha Schneider-Bürger became the first German female civil engineer, graduating from Technische Hochschule Munich, a predecessor of Technical University of Munich in 1927. Greta Woxén (née Westberg) became Sweden's first female civil engineer when she graduated from the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (the Royal Institute of Technology) in 1928. 1930s The first woman to earn a civil engineering degree in Mexico was Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza in 1930. Rachel Shalon (Hebrew: רחל שלון) graduated in structural engineerings from the Technion in Haifa in 1930, becoming the first woman engineer in what was then Mandatory Palestine and later Israel. She was made a professor of structural engineering in 1960 and was the first of