Jesse R. Quinlan
Jesse Quinlan comes to us from Luray High School in Luray, Virginia. He will receive his degree in Aerospace Engineering while minoring in Applied Mathematics and he presently has a 3.96 GPA.
His leadership and service activities are also extensive and diverse. He has served as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the STS and Mechanical and Aerospace departments. He served as the vice president and chair of the payload and structures group of the HOOS Flying SAE Aero Design Competition team. He has served as the membership chairman and president of the national Aerospace Engineering Honor Society, Sigma Gamma Tau. He is the design team leader of the Sonic Boom Minimization Group for the Senior Year Aerospace Design Class.
He has work in several different capacities over the past four years. He was a summer intern for the Virginia Department of Transportation. He has worked as an undergraduate Applied Mathematics Assistant. He has served as the recovery manager and research assistant for the Hy-V scramjet flight experiment here at the School of Engineering and Applied Science Aerospace Research Laboratory. And, he was a co-op student working at General Electric Aviation.
His success as an exceptional scholar has been recognized by the following. He is an elected member of the following honor societies: The Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, the Sigma Gamma Tau National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society, and Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society.
He has received the following Scholarships: the Waste Management General Scholarship, the Colgate Darden Scholarship, a Virginia Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Aerospace research Scholarship, and the Patrick Kerr Skateboard Scholarship. He received University of Virginia Intermediate Honors, the Lockheed Martin Distinguished Student Award, the Harold S. Morton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Award, and the Ruby Broy Mathematics Award. It was just recently announced that he received this year’s Sigma Gamma Tau undergraduate honor award for the Mid-Atlantic region. Also, the Virginia Space Grant Consortium has published his technical paper on the Conceptual Design of an Aerodynamic Brake for Hypersonic Recovery.
We are very proud of this young man and are pleased to present the second of this year’s SEAS Outstanding Student Awards to Mr. Jesse R. Quinlan.
