ASU honors student awarded fellowship for women, gender minorities interested in aerospace industry
Fulton Schools mechanical engineering student Ritisha Das, who is also majoring in mathematics, is among fewer than 50 students selected recently from more than 450 applicants for a 2024 Brooks Owens Fellowship. Das will do a three-month internship as a systems engineer working on satellites with Airbus U.S. Space & Defense in Arlington, Virginia. The fellowship program also provides students with one-on-one mentoring and meetings with congresswomen, astronauts, CEOs and company founders. Das intends to earn a doctoral degree in preparation for a career in rocket science. She hopes to become an astronaut who does research missions for NASA.