Maisie Linker with Steven Collicott, professor in AAE (left), and Tom Shih, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Maisie Linker was selected as the Herbert F. Rogers Award winner, given annually to a senior in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics whose contributions to AAE fostered engineering as an academic discipline.

To be eligible for the award, students needed to be seniors during the 2019 semester. Linker received $3,000.

Linker is an AAE ambassador and the co-founder and president of Women in Aerospace, and she has mentored freshmen as part of the Women in Engineering Program. She is project manager of the undergraduate research team on Professor Alina Alexeenko’s sponsored Film-Evaporation MEMS Tunable Array (FEMTA) concept for small satellite propulsion and attitude control. Linker presented the group’s work at the International Student Conference during the 2019 AIAA SciTech Forum in January, and the team won best presentation.

“I am very humbled to have been selected out of such an amazing group of students for this award,” Linker says. “Thank you to the intelligent, inspiring, and motivating AAE students, staff, and faculty for always supporting me in my efforts.”

Linker will graduate in May and has accepted a job at The Boeing Company.