The following is taken from the Women in Engineering at UBC home page maintained by third-year engineering student Rozlyn Bubela.
The first female chemical engineer to graduate from UBC, and apparently the first in Canada, was Rona Wallis (née Hatt) in 1922.
Women currently make up about 20 per cent of the approximately 2,000 undergraduate students in engineering at UBC and are in each of the nine departments. Many are among the top students.
The Association For Engineering Women (AFEW) is a UBC club that encourages the participation of women in all aspects of engineering.
A mentoring program, developed in conjunction with the Division for Advancement of Women in Engineering and Geoscience, provides female students with personal contact with women practising engineering or with senior engineering students.
Electrical Engineering Prof. Rabab Ward became UBC's first female engineering professor in 1981. Of 123 faculty members, nine are women.
The Women in Engineering at UBC Web site can be found at http://www.apsc.ubc.ca/stuserv/womeneng.htm