page_title: Cécile Butticaz
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Cécile Butticaz / Career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plaque temporaire de rue apposée dans le cadre du projet 100elles à Genève en 2019
context_page_description: Cécile Butticaz, also known as Cécile Biéler or Cécile Biéler-Butticaz, was a Swiss engineer. She is considered the first female electrical engineer in Europe, because she earned her engineering diploma in 1907.
context_section_description: Butticaz worked as an engineer in Geneva after she gained her diploma. She also taught mathematics in Geneva and Lausanne. She wrote and published several books of poetry in French. She also wrote on social matters, in Foyer moderne (1935).
  Butticaz is sometimes described as the first woman engineer in Europe, but there are several women with claims to that "first". Among earlier contenders, Rita de Morais Sarmento earned an engineering degree in Portugal in 1896, and Alice Perry earned her engineering degree in Ireland in 1905.
caption: A street sign marking Rue Cécile-Biéler-Butticaz.
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