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Meet Wendy Okolo, first Nigerian woman with University of Texas’ Aerospace Ph.D

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It is a universally accepted fact that the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do, irrespective of their gender or colour.

Wendy Okolo, a 36-year Nigerian woman can best be described as someone who is crazy enough to think she can change the narrative of her world.

Okolo at age 26 became the first black woman on record to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2015.

The Nigerian-born scientist is currently an aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA.

Okolo was born in 1989 and raised in Nigeria where she attended Saint Mary’s Primary School and Queen’s College in Lagos.

She then received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2010. The Nigerian Amazon later became the first black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from UTA in 2015.

Besides, she served as president of the Society of Women Engineers at the university and the Special Emphasis Programmes Manager for Women at Ames.

Okolo had this to say about her early school life; “School was easy for me, I got A’s all through, but my mom said I was going to become an engineer even before I knew what it was.

“I was telling everyone that I wanted to become an engineer, but I didn’t know what engineer I was going to be. I didn’t decide what engineering to specialise in right before I started my first semester but later on, Aerospace was what I fell in love with because it was fascinating.”

Career
Okolo started her career as an undergraduate intern for Lockheed Martin, working on NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Throughout two summers, she interned with the Requirements Management Office in Systems Engineering and the Hatch Mechanisms team in Mechanical Engineering.

As a graduate student, She later worked in the Control Design and Analysis Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Okolo is a sub-project manager in the Intelligent Systems Division of NASA Ames, and a research engineer in the Discovery and Systems Health Technology (DaSH)

Awards
She won the Amelia Earhart Fellowship in and the DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2012).

Okolo also was awarded the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) Fellowship in 2012, and 2013 respectively. Also in 2013, she won the AIAA John Leland Atwood Graduate Award


In 2019, she was given the NASA Ames Early Career Researcher Award, becoming the first woman to receive the Ames Early Career Researcher Award. At NASA, she was honoured with the 2021 NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal.

Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) for The Most Promising Engineer in the United States government. In 2021, she was named among the Most Influential People of African Descent, in of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent. In June 2023, Okolo published her book titled, “LEARN TO FLY: ON BECAMING A ROCKET SCIENTIST”, the book is available on Amazon.

Moreover, Okolo is an avid er of changing the narrative of underrepresentation in STEM, particularly for young girls, career women, and people of color.

Her initiatives include creating nursing rooms for mothers to ease their transition back to work and analysing job language usage in position descriptions to remove gendered language biases that reduce female applicants.

Okolo is a popular keynote speaker, always available when called, and she is serving on a , inspiring the next generation of minority STEM leaders, and providing tools for individuals and organisations to foster diversity and inclusion in STEM.

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Brainy, bold and beautiful. Congratulations adanne!

Okolo Amaka!!!!

Shebi una see Wendy, an epitome of Beauty and the Brain, Making a honest living from the pristine Niche she has carved out for herself in Aerospace Engineering from UTA with a low mileage in her Punameter.

But una see the likes of Sophia and Saidaboj with their High mileage in punameter, they would never see Wendy as their role model oo. All that Sophia knows best is open Pussy waaaaa for a free Lamborghini and Saidaboj own is to auction her pvssy for a pot of porridge pricetag of 20M

Set awon small gehs with a big gods

There'll always be an EXCEPTION.

CONGRATULATIONS MY OSU Blodas

Igbo amaka

Igbo Amaka.

When are we "celebrating" the first American or French woman with a PhD. in Yoruba literature or Arts and Culture from the University of Ibadan?

I’m starting to feel uneasy about these achievements and validations, to be honest. We’re too busy trying to be like them, trying to have what they have, and trying to fit into their space. Meanwhile, it’s obvious that back home, we’re like an abandoned and dejected race that nobody wants or associates with.

Nice. My nephew has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Tuskegee University.

I can bet you that this kind of woman will not be busy creating green light flashes to men everywhere. Esp. powerful men.
Thereby, consequently claiming that many men are trying to sexually abuse or harass her.

It amazes me if a woman getting close to about 50 years of age, is busy disturbing a nation about men's advances towards her.

Senators are supposed to be men / women by the gate. That means, they should be the wisdom tank of the nation, and people of high maturity of character.

If Merit takes
front seat in Nigeria,
Igbos will take
front seat in Nigeria.

Amazing

See as person fine

Name checkers how market

Beauty with brain. Nice one from the yeast

Igbo Kwenu. Chest beaters have beaten the record. Where are my Skullars and Bandits, have they avoided this news as usual

Racoon:
Meet Wendy Okolo, first Nigerian woman with University of Texas’ Aerospace Ph.D



https://businessday.ng/news/article/meet-wendy-okolo-first-nigerian-woman-with-university-of-texas-aerospace-ph-d/

Congratulations omo naija

Onye nke anyi! Carry Go Baby Girl 🥰❤️

Is that an achievement?

Igbo girls are very brilliant, u can hear davidos confection about chioma being special.

fkelly:
Igbo girls are very brilliant, u can hear davidos confection about chioma being special.

Port Harcourt lady don turn to igbo

So proud

IPOB amaka!

Acidosis:
When are we having the first American or French woman with a PhD. in Yoruba literature from the University of Ibadan?


I’m starting to feel uneasy about these achievements and validations, to be honest. We’re too busy trying to be like them, trying to have what they have, and trying to fit into their space. Meanwhile, it’s obvious that back home, we’re like an abandoned race that nobody wants or associates with.

1st woman with a phd was an achievement, 1st black woman, 1st Nigerian, But when we get to the level of 1st from a field or you have to say 1st from a specific university, we are getting into the territory of the ridiculous.

Congrats to her but please this is nonsense! It’s no longer a big. Deal for a Nigerian woman to have a PhD, it’s no longer new for a woman to be in aeronautics so what are we celebrating? This is not the 1960s when this was a big deal!

cassidy1996:
See as person fine

Name checkers how market

Why she no go fine?

No be LASU she go school ooo...

Backward ewedu skvll mining sub-humans can never achieve this feat, very nonsense and dirty mongrels

Congratulations 🎊
Babe wey sabi. U have done us proud!
Intelligent, rational and critical thinkers give me orgasm.

casualobserver:


1st woman with a phd was an achievement, 1st black woman, 1st Nigerian, But when we get to the level of 1st from a field from a partyuniversity, we are getting into the territory of the ridiculous.

Congrats to her but please this is nonsense! It’s no longer a big. Deal for a Nigerian woman to have a PhD, it’s no longer new for a woman to be in aeronautics so what are we celebrating?

What you don't know is that igbos are the most intelligent black race on planet earth (both in theory and practice); this is a fact that global agendists have tried to suppress as early as their voyage to Africa




Ndubuisi Ezerioha, is the builder of the fastest carbureted front-wheel car in the world.

Nice one.

For an hour now comments no gree full frontpage

Racoon:
Meet Wendy Okolo, first Nigerian woman with University of Texas’ Aerospace Ph.D

T-Pain has proven to us that school na scam.

Despite his rumoured third party vendor certificate from Chicago, has he not made our country worse than the NEPA certificate soldier he alone made president to earn his own ebilokan turn to continue APC shege?

Imagine this kind of advice from the senate president, mocking us for the extreme poverty, corruption, inflation, hunger, inflation, unemployment, insecurity etc that have become worse under their leadership.

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Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians


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Yugoslavia247:
Igbo amaka

You are watering down her achievement with this ethnic coloration. Celebrate a Nigerian, and all Nigerians will be happy for her. But if you make it an ethnic thing, you make people from other tribes uninterested. We have a lot of Yorubas doing amazing and facinating things across the globe. Nigeria is on the map today because of the giant strides achieved by the igbo and yoruba people.

Bringing ethnic coloration waters it down. Just imagine when someone like Eniola Shokunbi or Emmanuela Mayaki is being celebrated in the world and reping Nigeria, all of a sudden one yoruba man will say oooh she's yoruba. How will u feel about it? Our problem as igbos we like to hurt and insult other tribes but when they do it back to us we get offended.

Please people like you with depraved parents who didn't raise you on how to love ur neighbours should have no space in civilised social media spaces cos you are corrupting it with the hate ur ignorant parents used in raising you.

Actually, this is normal

FuckTheMod:
There'll always be an EXCEPTION.

CONGRATULATIONS MY OSU Blodas