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= Ella Mary Collin =

Ella Mary Collin was a metallurgical chemist who took many roles within the Women's Engineering Society |(WES).

Education
Ella received an honours degree from King's College London and studied metallurgy further at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute. She did part time research for several years on the subject of impurities in ores and metals for which she recieved a Ph.D. from London.

Career
Ella first worked at a firm of Analytical and Consulting Chemists, then in 1945 joined the staff of the British Launderer's Research Association where she worked firat as the Director of Research and then as Education Officer. In 1949 she was appointed as and Inspector of Schools in the Technial and Further Education branch.

Professional Society Roles
Ella was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Ella joined the Women's Engineering Society (WES) in 1934  and was elected was president from 1951-52. Prior to becoming president she was Secretary (1946-47) and then Chairman (1947-49) of the London Branch of the WES, which she helped to set up in 1946. . During the year of her chairmanship the London branch held 9 branch meetings, with talks on various subjects including Equality of Status, Ultrasonics and Starting an Engineering business, and 6 visits, including to the J.Lyons food factory and the X-ray department at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

In her role as president she spoke out about technical education in schools. She was also involved in the national and international federations of Business and Professional women's clubs. During her tenure as president there was a mass meeting at Westminster Central Hall in 1948 where more than 1000 women demonstrated to demand equal pay for equal work