Greta Woxén

Greta Anna Maria Woxén (; 12 July 1902 – 9 May 1993) was Sweden's first female engineer, graduating from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1928.

Early life Greta Anna Maria Westberg was born on 12 July 1902 in Denmark. Her father Nils Westberg was an engineer and a collaborator of Swedish industrialist Gustaf Dalén.

Education Greta Westberg completed her secondary school education in 1920 and passed the , the school-leavers' university entrance examination in Sweden. Westberg was the first woman in Sweden to begin a master's degree in engineering when she entered KTH's department of electrical engineering in 1924. She was nicknamed "Electric Girl". (Vera Sandberg), who graduated from Chalmers University of Technology in 1917 with a bachelor's degree, is considered Sweden's first female engineer. Chalmers' courses at the time were shorter than that at KTH, and it took until 1937 before Chalmers became a technical college and was allowed to issue master's degrees). Brita Snellman graduated in 1924, the same year that Westberg began her studies, which meant Westberg was the only female technologist at the entire KTH for part of her time there. During her degree, she formed the Kvinnliga Teknologföreningen, the Women Technologists' Association, with two other women technologists, who started their courses later, one studying Architecture and the other Chemistry. He had also graduated in engineering in 1928, and later (1943–1964) became KTH's Rector. They had five children, Iva, Harald, Anna, Gerda and Gustav.

Greta Woxén died 9 May 1993 in Lidingö.