PAU PINEDA BOSQUE

• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2017

• Purdue University, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering ‘18

• Host Institution: Orbital ATK

• Mentor: Diana Trujillo

Pau Pineda Bosque is the Program Manager of Test Engineering at Zipline International and member of the inaugural class of the Brooke Owens Fellowship. She is based in San Francisco, California.

Prior to working at Zipline, Pau was a Propulsion Test Engineer at Virgin Orbit. During her time at Virgin Orbit, Pau was the project manager for the development of the company’s first engine component test stand, NS1-B. She was also a qualified Test Director for Newton4 hotfire operations and a board member of Virgin Orbit TWE: Teammates for Women Empowerment.

Pau received her undergraduate degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University in May 2018. During her time at Purdue, Pau worked on various studies related to the human and remote exploration of other planets, including two crewed architectures for Mars and one probe design for Venus. She was also team lead for Purdue’s submission to NASA JSC’s Micro-G NExT Challenge. Her team developed a device to repair leaks on the International Space Station.

Outside of her technical work, Pau is passionate about policy and equity. In college, Pau served as the vice president of Purdue’s chapter of MAES, a professional organization for Latinos in science and engineering.