Alisa Henrie

Alisa Henrie

Alisa was interested in STEM when she was very young. She recalls that she fell in love with a book about Marie Curry. Since her mother went to Brigham Young University, she chose to go to BYU as well for Mechanical Engineering to work in the space industry. Her experience as an intern at the Idaho National Laboratory inspired her to get her PhD in mechanical engineering. After graduating from college, she became an educator with experience teaching students from elementary school all the way to college. She worked for KTECH and taught mechatronics to high school aged students. She has also published conference papers and journal articles in material engineering. She is now a clinical professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville on the ground level building the engineering technology program, a new major at UAH. She describes her experience of working in a male dominated as mixed, with positive and negative experiences of being a minority in her field. She emphasizes the need for critical thinking and research skills for those entering the industry today.

University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama

2023-07-18

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