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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
STUDENT FINDS HER SPACE
Mechanical Engineering student Zoe Brand (’23) earned a prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship in 2021, joining 43 other talented undergraduates who were selected from among more than 800 applicants.
As a winner of the fellowship, Brand was connected to an executive-level mentor, attended the annual Brooke Owens Summit and became part of the network of more than 150 “Brookie” alumni in areas of space and aviation, including engineering, scientific research, policy, journalism and entrepreneurship. She also was awarded a paid professional internship with the propulsion components team at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Brand attributes her success at least partly to the people she was able to connect with at Embry-Riddle through hands-on projects. Brand, who served as vice president of the Embry-Riddle Rocket Development Lab, said that “the highlight of working in the Rocket Development Lab is being with so many like-minded people who are so eager to learn concepts past their schoolwork to get projects done correctly.”
The Brooke Owens Fellowship was founded in 2016 to honor Embry-Riddle alumna D. Brooke Owens (’02), a space policy expert and accomplished pilot who died of cancer at age 35. The mission of the program is to promote gender diversity in the aerospace industry by providing additional opportunities for women and other gender minorities.
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