![]() ![]() Since different people take different amounts of time to go through such a long program, there’s a range of ages when people finish.īut yes, there is still a gap in the number of females represented in my field. ![]() I guess I don’t think of myself as being so much younger than the average person finishing their Ph.D. Heather: I’m very thankful to have been able to make it to this stage – I feel very blessed to have had many opportunities open for me that I could take advantage of. Prince: Congrats, What’s the fulfillment in attaining a PhD at a very young age, and especially as a female in mechanical engineering? We even beat the university where I currently go to school: MIT We were very happy to win 1st place in the competition There were different sub-teams in our group: Aerodynamics, Structures, and Propulsion The competition is called Design, Build, Fly.Įach year there is a different design requirement: the plane should carry some amount of objects it should fly as quickly as possible around a set track, and should be as light as possible. Heather: For my first degree, our final senior year project was to enter into an international competition with other university students to build a remote control airplane. Prince: Great and what have some of the remarkable achievements you’ve chalked during these years? in Mechanical Engineering, both in the US. I went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I just completed my Ph.D. Heather: I studied Mechanical Engineering for my first degree at Oklahoma State University. Prince: What have being your education history and qualifications so far? Heather: I was born in South Dakota, USA in 1987. In this interview she takes us through her journey of becoming one of the youngest change makers and PHD holders. An MIT graduate with a PHD in Engineering, she is one of the youngest people that have touched my heart and I deem it most rewarding to have had an interview with. Today on this edition of the Journey So Far, I took the chance to interview, Heather Beem an American who has shown her passion in promoting science education in Ghana.
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