Three Women Engineers on Birmingham Water Works Staff Help Utility Reach Milestone

While engineering remains a male-dominated field, the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) is changing those expectations with three female engineers on staff with doctorate degrees in the field. BWWB engineers Dr. April Nabors and Dr. Jaquice Boyd, along with newly-hired engineer Dr. Ashlyn Manzella, who started at the utility in May, each hold doctorates in civil engineering and work in water filtration for the utility.Upon their graduation from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) earlier this month, Boyd and Manzella were among three women earning their doctoral diplomas, the most in a single graduating class from the university’s School of