Aerospace Engineer Victoria Garcia
Victoria Garcia
Aerospace Engineer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering2005
Georgia Institute of Technology - Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering2008

My Story

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My typical day at work involves...

From the 2014 Cosmopolitan article (see below "This Is My Story"): "I was hired at Marshall [Space Flight Center] as a system engineer. The simplest way to explain system engineering is to analyze the product from an overall perspective. When there is a huge product, such as a launch vehicle, you have thousands of people working on different aspects of the product. There is a group of people working on electronics, another one on the structural design, another on the propulsion, and so on. One of the basic tasks of a system engineer is to make sure all of those groups are in sync. So a system engineer may do some analysis and/or collaboration to help every group meet its goals."

This is My Story

For more information, see Cosmopolitan article called "Get That Life: How I Became a NASA Engineer Despite My Disability". https://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/interviews/a34010/get-that-life-victoria-garcia-nasa-engineer

(Thanks to Design Squad Global for the video.)

Examples of Projects I've Worked On

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