• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2021

• University of Southern California, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Dynamics and Controls, ‘24

• The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mechanical Engineering, ‘21

• Host Institution: The Aerospace Corporation

• Mentor: Charlie Bolden

• Brookie Mentor: Katie Carroll

Jordan Fuse is currently and NSF fellow at The University of Southern California. She is pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering with an emphasis in dynamics and controls. She also works full time at The Aerospace Corporation as a member of the technical staff for Spacecraft Dynamics in the Structural Dynamics Department. In this role, she supports coupled loads analysis (CLA), special studies involving multiconfiguration loads analysis (MLA), and tool development for the Falcon and Vulcan programs.

In 2022, she was selected by the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) to serve as one of 90 delegates from 25 countries for the Space Generation Fusion Forum (SGFF). During this conference, Fuse participated in discussions and generated content that will be presented to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Fuse joined The Aerospace Corporation in 2021 as an associate member of the technical staff as the first Brooke Owens Fellowship recipient to receive a full-time offer from the corporation rather than an internship.

She received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). While at UAB, Jordan was selected as a 2018 NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholar, which provided her with the opportunity to intern at the National Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF). While working there, she developed a passion for spacecraft design. During her time at NSOF, she used gamification to develop a Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) training tool that helped operators identify satellite anomalies more efficiently. This tool can be adapted for all departments and is still in use by NOAA and NASA personnel to this day.

In addition, Jordan was the Branch Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) chapter at UAB. There are very few aerospace programs in the community, so Jordan worked with her peers to bring aerospace opportunities to Birmingham. Her team participated in the annual AIAA Design, Build, Fly Competition where a custom unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was developed to meet the unique design requirements of the competition. Despite not having an aerospace degree program, the team’s design proposal ranked 3rd in the nation! In addition, Jordan was an Engineering Peer Tutor and a Community Outreach Officer for the Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Pi Tau Sigma. She enjoyed helping her peers develop their passion for STEM and loves helping others discover career and scholarship opportunities. Jordan is also an inspiring inventor that loves mechanical engineering because it involves hands-on application of scientific principles.