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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