Wendy Okolo
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Dr. Wendy A. Okolo is an Aerospace Research Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center.[1] She works as the Sub-Project Manager in the Intelligent Systems Division of NASA’s Ames Research Center and a Special Emphasis Program's Manager for Women at Ames.[2]
Education
Nigerian bred Okolo obtained her secondary school education from Queen's College, an all-girls secondary school in Lagos,Nigeria. She went on to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University Of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas in 2010. She became the first black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the same university in 2015 at the age of 26. Her Ph.D. studies were supervised by Dr. Atilla Dogan. [3] During her undergraduate years, she was the president of the Society of Women Engineers at the University.[4]
Career
Wendy Okolo started her career as an intern for Lockheed Martin working on National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA’s Orion spacecraft. She worked first in the Requirements Management Office in Systems Engineering during her first summer internship, then she worked with the Hatch Mechanisms team in Mechanical Engineering.[2] While she was a graduate student between 2010 and 2012, she worked in the Control Design & Analysis Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base.[5] She is a Sub-Project Manager in the Intelligent Systems Division of NASA’s Ames Research Center.[6] She is also serves as a research engineer in the Discovery and Systems Health Technology (DaSH)[7]
Personal life
Okolo says her sisters taught her the sciences with their day-to-day realities. She describes them as her heroes.[6][8]
Awards
- Amelia Earhart Fellowship (2012) [9]
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2012) [3]
- AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award (2013) [10]
- BEYA Global Competitiveness Conference award (2019) - The Most Promising Engineer in the United States government.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Dr. Wendy Okolo: The Most Promising Engineer in Government". US Black Engineer. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ a b "Wendy A. Okolo". ti.arc.nasa.gov.
- ^ a b "MAE Ph.D. Student Awarded a NDSEG Fellowship | UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ "Close Bonds - Unbranded Stories - UT Arlington". Uta.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ viewlogwin20_oG. "Dr. Wendy Okolo: The Most Promising Engineer In Government - The Bridge News".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Meet Wendy, Nigeria's NASA whizz who is the 'most promising engineer in US government'". TheCable. 19 February 2019.
- ^ "Nigerian Wendy Okolo becomes First African Lady to Grasp a Phd in Aerospace Engineering". 3 March 2019.
- ^ "Wendy Okolo is the Nigerian Genius and First Black Woman to Earn PhD in Aerospace Engineering at NASA". 21 February 2019.
- ^ "MAE Ph.D. Student Awarded an Amelia Earhart Fellowship - UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu.
- ^ "Okolo Earns AIAA's Leland Award | UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-29.