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
Senior Director of Business Development, Astrobotic Technology
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Katie Blake
Senior Flight Test Engineer and Company Test Pilot, Moog Avionics
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Simon I. Briceno
Chief Commercial Officer, 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
Global Robotics and Physical AI Leader at EY
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Charles Domercant
Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute
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Hunter Dreidame
Program Manager at Google
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Ebru Hagen
Director, Commercial Engines Continuous Business Improvement, RTX / 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 LEO for Government Solutions
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Stephanie Introne
Space Enterprise Optimization Analyst, The Aerospace Corporation
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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
Deputy Government Flight Test Director and Engineering Test Pilot, 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 Airbus Fleet Engineering, Delta Airlines
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Michael Portman
Senior Aerospace Engineer - Recorder Specialist, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
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Tejas Puranik
Senior Engineering Data Scientist, Boeing
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Kishen Raghunath
Chief Technology Officer, AMROK Space
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John Rusin
General Manager - Liaison Engineering, Delta Air Lines
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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
Founder and CEO of Third Segment LLC
Retired from Airbus, US DoD, and Raytheon
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Harshini Sivakumar
MBA Student, Harvard Business School
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Robert Sprayberry
Supervisory Aerospace Engineer, 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
Senior Research Engineer, Earthly Dynamics Corporation
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Gary Weissel
Managing Officer, Tronos Aviation Consulting, Inc.
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Aimee Williams
Staff Systems Engineer at GE Aerospace
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Catherine Wright
VP Brand and Communications, BWX Technologies
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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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