• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2025

• Clemson University, Mechanical Engineering, ‘26

• Host Institution: Analytical Mechanics Associates

• Mentor: TBD

• Brookie Mentor: TBD

Regan O’Neill is a third-year mechanical engineering student at Clemson University with a lifelong passion for space exploration. Growing up near Washington, D.C., she spent countless weekends at the Air and Space Museum and bonding with her dad over sci-fi movies.

After her first year at Clemson, Regan became a NASA Space Grant Consortium Palmetto Academy Fellow, where she worked on bio-inspired, energy-efficient drilling techniques for lunar regolith. This experience deepened her interest in engineering for space applications and honed her skills in mechanical design and complex system modeling.

Regan later joined Clemson’s RockSat-X team, where she led the undergraduate engineering team in designing and producing mechanical systems for a Langmuir probe to collect plasma data from the upper ionosphere. Regan traveled to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility for integrated testing and to witness the probe’s launch firsthand.

Currently, she serves as the lead engineer and undergraduate program manager for NASA Ghost, an initiative building on her team’s RockSat-X research. This project involves launching a probe into the aurora borealis from Norway's Andøya Space Center to study electron density and temperature.

In her free time, Regan enjoys hiking, weightlifting, baking, and cheering on her favorite Formula 1 drivers.

This summer, she is thrilled to be a Brooke Owens Fellow and looks forward to her internship with Analytical Mechanics Associates in Denver, Colorado.