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Engineering on the Red Planet
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Dr. Ayanna Howard
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Dr. Ayanna Howard's favorite part about being an engineer is having the
flexibility to have revolutionary ideas and then make them a reality.
"In other words," she says, "I get to make my dreams
become reality." To become an engineer, Dr. Howard worked hard
in school. She received her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
from the University of Southern California. She has been at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory since 1990. She has a husband and a new baby
boy and in her free time she loves to play video games and see
action-adventure or science fiction movies. Her advice to students
considering a career in engineering? "Learn the math basics and keep
your imagination alive, since engineering is about creating new things!"
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