Alum Offers Advice to Prospective Engineers

AME alum Angelica Ceniceros, who earned her MS in aerospace engineering in 2017, recently offered advice to prospective engineers at Gadsden Elementary School District #32, of which she is also an alum. After Ceniceros earned her master's, she took a job with Raytheon Missiles & Defense and earned a National Women of Color STEM Rising Star Award.

“Engineering is an incredibly engaging and rewarding discipline which offers a wide scope of projects and pursuits all over the world. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills to implement your ideas in order to design and innovate our technology infrastructure; more importantly, it will give you the tools and freedom to change the world and contribute in any place or field you want to be in," Ceniceros said. "Even though this academic and professional path will seem challenging at times, pushing yourself to your goal and solving unpredictable problems forces you to grow."

During her time at the University of Arizona, Ceniceros was awarded a 2016 Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service from the U.S. Department of Defense.