Women Leadership and Development Award

Leadership and Development Award will be presented for being supportive in promoting the CEAD USA 2022 Conference and encouraging their Friends/Colleagues/Students to attend as Delegate/Speaker/Oral or Poster Presenters.

CEAD USA 2022 appreciates the effort of gathering the professionals by presenting the Mary Fergusson Award

Mary Isolen Fergusson (28 April 1914, in Stoke – 30 November 1997, in London) was a British civil engineer, the first female fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, elected in 1957. She remained with the firm and worked on bridges and other infrastructure projects in Scotland, becoming a corporate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1939. citation needed Eventually Fergusson became a senior partner with Blyth and Blyth in 1948, making her the first female senior partner in a UK civil engineering firm. She was personally responsible for a number of engineering works, including the well-known River Leven Purification Scheme in 1952. On 15 January 1957 she was the first woman to be elected as full member of Britain's senior engineering society, the Institution of Civil Engineers. In 1967 Fergusson was part of the organizational committee for the Second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists.

Mary Isolen Fergusson Awardee will be given Certificate, Memento, Registration fee and Accommodation refund as a token of appreciation.   

Eligibility: Should be registered before the Award deadline for CEAD USA 2022.

Selection Criteria: Only women & Number of Suggestions to attend our conference and Promotion on various websites.