Bonnie Heck Ferri is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator, the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education at Georgia Tech,[1] where she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and the first woman to join the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Ferri majored in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1981.
[2] She continued at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor,[3] the first woman hired to a faculty position in electrical engineering.
[4] Ferri was the 2007 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society.
[5] She was selected as the recipient of the John R. Ragazzini Award in 2022 and elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to hands-on learning and leadership in higher education" in that same year.