Wendy Okolo

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Wendy A. Okolo is a Nigerian-American aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. [1] She is the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. [2] She was also the Special Emphasis Programs Manager for Women at Ames. [3]

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Education

Okolo obtained her secondary education at Queen's College, an all-girls school in Lagos, Nigeria. She then received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2010. Okolo later became the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from UTA in 2015 at age 26. [2] Her Ph.D. studies were supervised by Atilla Dogan. [4] During Okolo's undergraduate years, she served as president of the Society of Women Engineers at the university. [5]

Career

Okolo started her career as an undergraduate intern for Lockheed Martin, working on NASA's Orion spacecraft. [3] Over the course of two summers, she interned with the Requirements Management Office in Systems Engineering and the Hatch Mechanisms team in Mechanical Engineering. [3] As a graduate student, Okolo later worked in the Control Design & Analysis Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. [6]

Okolo is an Associate Project Manager in the Intelligent Systems Division of NASA Ames. [7] She is a research engineer in the Discovery and Systems Health Technology (DaSH) [8]

Personal life

Okolo says her sisters taught her the sciences with their day-to-day realities. She describes them as her heroes. [7] [9]

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dr. Wendy Okolo: The Most Promising Engineer in Government". US Black Engineer. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  2. 1 2 "African woman reaching lofty heights as aerospace engineer opioid". Philadelphia Tribune. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Wendy A. Okolo". ti.arc.nasa.gov.
  4. 1 2 "MAE Ph.D. Student Awarded a NDSEG Fellowship | UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  5. ↑ "Close Bonds - Unbranded Stories - UT Arlington". Uta.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  6. ↑ viewlogwin20_oG. "Dr. Wendy Okolo: The Most Promising Engineer In Government - The Bridge News".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. 1 2 "Meet Wendy, Nigeria's NASA whizz who is the 'most promising engineer in US government'". TheCable. 19 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "Nigerian Wendy Okolo becomes First African Lady to Grasp a Phd in Aerospace Engineering". 3 March 2019. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Wendy Okolo is the Nigerian Genius and First Black Woman to Earn PhD in Aerospace Engineering at NASA". 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  10. ↑ "MAE Ph.D. Student Awarded an Amelia Earhart Fellowship - UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  11. ↑ "Okolo Earns AIAA's Leland Award | UT Arlington College of Engineering". www.uta.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
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