Aprille Ericsson-Jackson

Aprille Ericsson-Jackson (born April 1, 1963^[1]) is an American aerospace engineer.^[2][3][4]

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ericsson-Jackson attended the Cambridge School of Weston. She was the first female, and the first African-American female, to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Howard University and the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in engineering at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Ericsson has won many awards, including the 1997 "Women in Science and Engineering" award for the best female engineer in the federal government, and she is currently the instrument manager for a proposed mission to bring dust from the Martian lower atmosphere back to Earth.

References

1. Betty Kaplan Gubert; Miriam Sawyer; Caroline M. Fannin, Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science, Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2001, ISBN 1573562467; p. 118
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
3. "Howard University - College of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Science".
4. ":: NASA Quest > Archives ::".