After posting graduation photos on
Twitter, an aerospace engineering graduate from Georgia has gone viral a
year after she met President Barack Obama.
Tiffany Davis, a Black woman, is set to
graduate from the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology this May. In the photos, she dons a cap and gown
as she poses with campus scenery. She told the college’s website two
years ago she always had a love for the field.
“When I was 11 I asked for a circuit
board for Christmas because I thought it was cool that this board could
play such a huge role in how something works.”
Her love of flight vehicle engineering
has paid off as it led her to Boeing’s Engineering Accelerated Hiring
Initiative in 2014. The opportunity has allowed her to hold several
internships with the company, including positions as a structural
analyst and product design intern that same year. She resumed the same
position as an analyst in 2015, according to her LinkedIn page.
This isn’t the first time the college
senior has generated news. Last March, the then third-year student
introduced President Obama to a crowd of students at her university
where he spoke on affordable education.
The college junior told students at Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion in
2014 that she wrote a letter to the president regarding college
affordability. He responded and told her he was working to ensure all
Americans, “including future rocket scientists like you, can achieve
their dreams without worrying about their loans.” President Obama
proclaimed at the time that the university was “one of the finest
technical institutes in the world.”
Davis exemplifies that statement as the
school website emphasized the undergraduate researcher’s strong work
ethic and wild enthusiasm. She frequently asked questions during her
engineering course and spoke up about problems in the classroom. It
seems she still keeps in contact with Boeing, as the Washington D.C.
native recently tweeted about meeting with a mentor from the company.
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