Ir Koo Siu Ling the first female aerospace engineer in the Netherlands
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(2021)
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G. N. Saunders (TU Delft - Aerospace Structures & Materials)
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Aerospace Structures & Materials
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© 2021 Gillian Saunders-Smits
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2021
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English
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Abstract
The first woman to graduate from our faculty, then known as ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’ (Aeronautical engineering) was Koo Siu Ling. She was an international student from Indonesia of Chinese descent. When she registered to study ‘Vliegtuigbouwkunde’, it made the newspapers, both in the Netherlands and in Indonesia. She would start her studies in 1956 at the age of 16.