• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2023

• University of Alabama in Huntsville, Aerospace Engineering, ‘23

• Host Institution: Lonestar Lunar

• Mentor: Stephen Koerner

• Brookie Mentor: TBD

Amber is from Mobile, Alabama and is currently in her senior year at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. She plans to get her Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in May of 2023. She chose to go into engineering because she loved math and science all throughout high school. Amber specifically chose aerospace engineering because it could provide her the opportunity to create innovative ideas and to help people both now and in the far future through aerospace exploration. Outside of engineering, Amber is also passionate about STEM Outreach especially in areas where students do not usually get STEM exposure in order to encourage future generations to follow their dreams no matter how impossible it may seem.

At UAH, Amber has joined multiple student organizations. The engineering societies she has joined helped provide leadership and volunteering opportunities. These organizations include Society of Women Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, National Space Club - Huntsville, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She also was a part of the NASA L’Space Mission Concept Academy in the summer of 2021 where she was the Deputy Project Manager of Team 24 and helped come up with a mission concept design of a lunar payload that could detect water-ice in the southern region of the moon. Space Hardware Club is another organization that Amber has been involved in. Within Space Hardware Club Amber is in Project CROSSGUARD which is the carbon fiber manufacturing project of the club since spring of 2022, Project CanSat which allows students to design and build a mock satellite for the international competition from fall to spring of 2021, Project Tartarus which is the liquid bi-propellant rocketry project in the fall of 2020, and the Two-Month Glider Challenge which is an introduction project where students build an aerodynamic glider with avionics in two months in the fall of 2019. The leadership positions Amber has been in within Space Hardware Club include President, Outreach Manager, Club Class Committee Head, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Project Lead, Two-Month Glider Challenge Lead, and Two-Month Glider Challenge Mentor. She is also the Chief Engineer of one of the Senior Design teams where the team must design a concept design of a lander that can execute research on the surface of Europa. Outside of engineering, she has a passion for helping others and was a part of the Circle K International chapter at UAH and regularly volunteers at university wide volunteering events.

Amber has had two summer internships and one undergraduate research position while pursuing her degree. Her first internship was in the summer of 2020 at a company called Radio Bro Corporation where she helped create a concept design of a lunar return vehicle. Her second internship was in the summer of 2022 at the now called Technology for Energy Corporation with the support of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium to develop a 1U CubeSat with optical sensing that would allow the payload to centroid on stars. Her UAH research position was in spring of 2022, and she helped design the website for students to learn about aerodynamics while being able to operate a wind tunnel test remotely. She also worked as a U.S. Space and Rocket Center Crew Trainer in 2020 and as a UAH First Year Experience 101 Peer Mentor in 2022 to help guide younger students.