2025

Aerospace engineering undergraduate and graduate students can use this page to view upcoming mentor availabilities, search by mentor expertise and focus areas, and see a list of current mentors and their bios. Email mentor@ae.gatech.edu if you need assistance scheduling with your preferred mentor.

 

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Laura Acierno
Senior Engineer at GE Aerospace
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Roland Barnes
Senior Director of Quality, Pratt & Whitney
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Sean Bedford
Director of Business Development at Astrobotic Technology
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Katie Blake
Flight Test Engineer and Company Test Pilot, Genesys Aerosystems
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Simon I. Briceno
Chief Commercial Officer at Jaunt Air Mobility
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Derrick Brown
Capture Team Lead-Business Development, Boeing
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Edward V Byrns Jr.
Head of Climate and Weather at Atrium Underwriters
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Leon Chen
NASA ISS & CLDP ECLS Subsystem Manager
The Aerospace Corporation
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Youngjun Choi
Director of Advanced AI and Robotics at UPS Advanced Technology Group
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Charles Domercant
Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute
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Hunter Dreidame
Program Manager at Google
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Ebru Hagen
Director, Commercial Engines Business Improvement at Pratt & Whitney
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Tim Hamel, PMP
Senior Director, Laboratory Equipment at Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Josh Ingersoll
Senior Manager - Government Lasercom Products, Amazon - Kuiper Government Solutions
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Stephanie Introne
Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation’s Space Enterprise Design and Optimization Department (SEDOD)
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Jesse Kallman
Founder & CEO of Danti
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Cynthia Kirby
Aviation Maintenance Instructor at US Aviation Group
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Kendra Kirkland
Management Officer (Foreign Service), U.S. Department of State
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LCDR Jillian J. Lewis
Engineering Test Pilot and Project Officer at U.S. Navy
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Sandra "Sandy" Magnus
Professor of the Practice
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Kavya Kamal Manyapu
Lunar Surface Operations and Training, NASA
Adjunct Professor, Department of Space Studies at University of North Dakota
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Ethan Maretich
Director, Trade Compliance at Microsoft
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Anne Patterson
Founder & CEO Women's Telehealth
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Niya Perry
General Manager of Delta Air Lines’ Airbus Fleet Engineering team
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Michael Portman
Accident Investigator and Recorder Specialist at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
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Tejas Puranik
Senior Engineering Data Scientist at Boeing
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Kishen Raghunath
Principal, American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation Capital Group
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John Rusin
General Manager of Avionics Engineering and Aircraft Cybersecurity
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Natasha Lydia Schatzman
Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center
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Toyin Shodiya 
Senior Program Manager for Blue Origin's New Glenn Orbital Space Program
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Amanda Simpson
Consultant (Aerospace, Energy, and DEI)
Former V.P. Airbus Americas, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense at U.S. DOD
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Harshini Sivakumar
MBA Student, Harvard Business School
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Robert Sprayberry
Airframe Section Manager, Federal Aviation Administration
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Charlie Tyndall
Principal Engineer, Pratt & Whitney
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Sabrina Ussery
Senior Systems Engineer, Amazon
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Jake Wachlin
Research Engineer at the Earthly Dynamics Corporation
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Gary Weissel
Managing Officer at Tronos Aviation Consulting, Inc.
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Aimee Williams
Staff Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace
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Catherine Wright
Founder and CEO of Indigo Strategic Consulting
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Doug Wright
Lead Systems Engineer, L3Harris
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Mark Yerger
MDY Services LLC (Owner)
Retired, SVP FedEx Express
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