Mentor in Residence | Mentor in Residence

collage of mentors who will be helping aerospace engineering students as they begin their aerospace careers and education

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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Senior Engineer at GE Aerospace

Senior Director of Quality, Pratt & Whitney

Director of Business Development at Astrobotic Technology

Flight Test Engineer and Company Test Pilot, Genesys Aerosystems

Simon I. Briceno

Chief Commercial Officer at Jaunt Air Mobility

Capture Team Lead-Business Development, Boeing

Edward V Byrns Jr.

Climate Advisor and Founder of the Demex Group

Director of Advanced AI and Robotics at UPS Advanced Technology Group

Charles Domercant

Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute

Hunter Dreidame

Program Manager at Google

Director, Commercial Engines Business Improvement at Pratt & Whitney

Staff Systems Engineer at Woodward

Senior Director, Laboratory Equipment at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Josh Ingersoll, MBA, MS, MA

Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Astranis Space Technologies Corporation

Founder & CEO of Danti

Fleet Projects Manager at Delta Air Lines

Kendra Kirkland

Management Officer (Foreign Service), U.S. Department of State

LCDR Jillian J. Lewis

Engineering Test Pilot and Project Officer at U.S. Navy

Sandra "Sandy" Magnus

Professor of the Practice

Lead Avionics Engineer at Millennium Space Systems

Kavya Kamal Manyapu

Lunar Surface Operations and Training, NASA

Adjunct Professor, Department of Space Studies at University of North Dakota

Director, Trade Compliance at Microsoft

Founder & CEO Women's Telehealth

Michael Portman

Accident Investigator and Recorder Specialist at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Systems Engineer at Boeing

Kishen Raghunath

Principal, American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation Capital Group

General Manager of Avionics Engineering and Aircraft Cybersecurity

Dr. Natasha Lydia Schatzman

Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center

Consultant (Aerospace, Energy, and DEI)

Former V.P. Airbus Americas, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense at U.S. DOD

Robert Sprayberry

Airframe Section Manager, Federal Aviation Administration

Senior Systems Engineer, Amazon

Research Engineer at the Earthly Dynamics Corporation

Managing Officer at Tronos Aviation Consulting, Inc.

Catherine Wright

Founder and CEO of Indigo Strategic Consulting

Lead Systems Engineer, L3Harris

MDY Services LLC (Owner)

Retired, SVP FedEx Express