Six graduates honored by Department of Aerospace Engineering
Author: John Burnett-Larkins
Academic Excellence Awards
Logan Shelby
- Internships: Sekisui Aerospace
- Leadership Experience: Make To Innovate STELLAR team, controls team lead
- Activities: Make To Innovate CyLaunch team
- Post-graduation: Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Michael Miller
- Internship: Collins Aerospace
- Honors: College of Engineering Outstanding Senior in Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2024 commencement
- Leadership Experience: of Aerospace Engineering Icing Research Tunnel; Undergraduate Research Ambassadors; University of Missouri Research Experience for Undergraduates in Consumer Networking Technologies; undergraduate researcher (published technical paper); teaching assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Activities: Intramural curling; volleyball; flag football
- Post-graduation: Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Overall Achievement Awards
Annabelle Behrens
- Internships: Collins Aerospace (two) – Power & Controls, Commercial Aircraft Components; Power & Controls, Additive Manufacturing
- Internship: Banner Engineering
- Leadership Experience: Engineering Explorations Learning Community, Lead Peer Mentor; Make To Innovate ARES rocket team; Engineers Week, Professional Relations Executive
- Activities: Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow; Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE); Freshman Leaders in Engineering (FLiE); Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
- Post-Graduation: RTX Engineering Leadership and Development Program; Collins Aerospace, Windsor Locks, CT; plans to rotate to Pratt & Whitney and/or Raytheon
Emilee Evans
- Internships: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; NASA Langley Research Center; Spirit AeroSystems
- Honors: Dean’s list all eight semesters; presented research at Composites, Materials, and Structures conference; two conference papers accepted into Joint Army, Navy, NASA, and Air Force conference (one received Best Student Paper award)
- Leadership Experience: Team lead, Make To Innovate Micro-g-NExT team
- Activities: Society of Women Engineers (SWE); Iowa State Symphony Orchestra; ISU Opera
- Post-Graduation: Will work full-time as aerospace engineering researcher, Analytical Mechanics Associates, contractor at NASA Langley Research Center; will attend graduate school fall 2025 while working remotely
Declan Green
- Internship: Collins Aerospace
- Leadership: Iowa State University Marching Band section leader; senior capstone project team lead
- Activities: Open UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) undergraduate research, Rozier research team; Iowa State University Marching Band and Pep Band
- Post-graduation: Will pursue master’s degree at Iowa State
Ricardo Herrera
- Internships: NASA Glenn Research Center; Collins Aerospace
- Honors: Co-author of conference publication accepted to AAS/AIAA 2025 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting; Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
- Activities: Undergraduate research assistant, Abdelkhalik research group; Aerospace Engineering peer mentor; intramural sand volleyball and curling
- Post-graduation: Graduate school to pursue master’s degree in aerospace engineering with focus on astrodynamics