By Anna Lynn Spitzer
Featuring Amy Huynh, 2019 Brooke Owens Fellow
Amy Huynh, a Samueli School senior double majoring in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, has won one of only four 2020-21 Women in Aerospace Foundation (WIA) scholarships awarded nationally this year. The distinction recognizes promising young women who will serve as the next generation of female leaders in the aerospace industry.
Huynh, who won WIA’s $2,000 merit-based AIAA Digital Avionics Scholarship, is a first-generation low-income college student whose research focuses on how engineering internships affect the learning experiences of female engineering students. Her goal is to increase retention of women in engineering, ultimately making aerospace careers accessible for everyone and amplifying the voices of marginalized populations in the field.
Read more at https://engineering.uci.edu/news/2021/2/national-women-aerospace-scholarship-goes-mae-student