2025 Distinguished Engineering Alumni

Anna-Maria Rivas McGowan

Agency Senior Executive, Complex Systems Design, NASA
BSAAE '92

“I have used every aspect of my Purdue education, specifically, I developed an appreciation and interest in dynamics from several AAE classes and focused the early part of my career on aeroelasticity, becoming an aeroelastic wind tunnel test engineer and analyst.”

Beth Moses

Astronaut and Chief Astronaut Instructor, Virgin Galactic
BSAAE '92, MSAAE '94

“The moment when I was most proud of becoming a professional astronaut was not the day it happened, not the day I was selected, not the day I first flew, but the day I was informed that this university was going to include me in the Cradle of Astronauts.”