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Jones

Hannah

Jones

Class of
2025
High School:
Bryant High School
Major earned at UA Little Rock:
Mechanical Engineering, B.S.
Degrees earned post UA Little Rock:
Currently pursuing an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UA Little Rock under Dr. Shweta Dabetwar.
Current Location:
Little Rock, AR
Current Employment:

Hannah graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in the Spring of 2025. In addition to her academic performance, Hannah actively participated in volunteer work, extracurricular leadership, and research. Her research was focused on classifying damage in carbon fiber materials using artificial intelligence and was published in the 2024 International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition (IMECE) conference proceedings with Dr. Shweta Dabetwar. She also took on leadership as the president of the Aerospace Club at UA Little Rock and began a volunteer initiative in partnership with the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium that brought mobile planetariums to over 500 Arkansans. Her leadership efforts were recognised through the Academic RSO Student Impact Award, Registered Student Organization President of the Year Award, and the Registered Student Organization of the YearAward. In addition, in her graduating year, she received the Outstanding Graduating BS Student Award in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology Award and the Arkansas Space Grant's Workforce Development Award, which sponsored her internship at NASA's Stennis Space Center.

At NASA, she worked as an intern under Safety and Mission Assurance, where she compiled a comprehensive review of agency and center-level risk and safety-related documents to conduct a gap analysis and provide recommendations for the identified gaps. She was able to experience an RS-25 engine test, observe astronauts performing experiments on the International Space Station, and meet astronaut Charlie Duke. Returning home from NASA, she continues her pursuit of aerospace research and goals through the L'SPACE NASA Proposal Writing and Evaluation Experience, where students learn how to write proposals catered to NASA's needs and evaluate other proposals. She currently serves as lead engineer for Team 37 (Surface Exploration and Planetary Operations) in developing a proposal for methane production on Mars and served as a Chair for a review panel during the program. At UA Little Rock, she continues researching under Dr. Shweta Dabetwar, with her current research focused on classifying damaged wind turbine blade samples using infrared thermography and artificial intelligence. Her paper was recently presented at IMECE 2025 and will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, she received a "Best Research Poster Award" at the conference for her efforts. Her current work is supported through the American Association of University Women's Selected Professions Fellowship.

In the future, she plans to continue her education by pursuing a PhD after completing her MS. Her goal is to focus on aerospace materials and related research. She hopes to continue her extracurricular work in encouraging young women to pursue STEM education.