Aerospace Engineering Seminar

During this seminar, Dr. Jackie Gish will discuss careers in industry from her point of view after a long career at an aerospace company. Topics will include typical company organization, roles & responsibilities, project life cycles, career paths and her perspective of advantages and disadvantages of working in industry. Jackie Gish received her bachelor's degree from UCLA, an MBA from USC and her PhD from Caltech in Chemical Physics. After a postdoctoral fellowship, she joined TRW, which became Northrop Grumman. Dr. Gish did optical diagnostics and then spent the majority of her 33-year career in lasers as a department manager, program manager and line-of-business manager. She was a Northrop Grumman Technical Fellow, was elected as a fellow of the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) and served on the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academy and the Advisory Board of Scientific Advisors for DEPS. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011. Jackie currently is a volunteer in GALCIT, where she is available to graduate students as a mentor. She is also on the Women's Engagement Board of the Women Mentoring Women Program at Caltech and mentors high school students through a program called MOSTE (Motivating Our Students Through Experience).