Caroline Austin

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS
COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, MI

Caroline Austin is majoring in aerospace engineering and mechanics and minoring in the Randall Research Scholars Program (RRSP) as a member of the Honors College. Austin was a National Merit Finalist and holds a 4.0GPA. She served as the secretary of Sigma Gamma Tau and as a member of Tau Beta Pi. Austin also received the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department Outstanding Junior Award and the RRSP Outstanding Sophomore Award. She also interned at the NASA Glenn Research Center. As an undergraduate research assistant, Austin assisted Dr. Dario Martelli in studying the effects of electrical stimulation on balance and she is currently leading a project with the kinesiology department. Austin was the team lead for the Aerospace Engineering Senior Design Team, led the mentoring program with the RRSP Peer Resource Organization, served as president of the Alabama Gymnastics Club team, was an officer in Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was on UA’s women’s varsity rowing team.

OUTSTANDING SENIORS THROUGH THE YEARS

  • 2021: Emma Sanders
  • 2020: Peyton Strickland
  • 2019: Morgan Ross
  • 2018: Holden DeGrave
  • 2017: Michael R. Dunn
  • 2016: Stephen Peter Rowe
  • 2015: Eric S. McVay
  • 2014: Alexander C. Few
  • 2013: Sarah E. Johnson
  • 2012: Blake Whitley
  • 2011: Anika Kuczynski
  • 2010: Whitney Erin Montgomery
  • 2009: Milton T. Nettles
  • 2008: Michelle McGaha
  • 2007: Meredith Brooke Caldwell
  • 2006: John William Crawford Jr.
  • 2005: Lisa Vaughn
  • 2004: Ashley Erickson
  • 2003: Destin Wilson Sandlin
  • 2002: Eric L. Campbell
  • 2001: Joe Brown
  • 2000: Matheus Neves Medeiros
  • 1999: Tanya Cole Andrews
  • 1998: Jonathan Owens
  • 1997: Eric L. Goldis
  • 1996: Hillery Woods
  • 1996: Steven Glenn
  • 1995: Amy Ellen Wilson
  • 1994: Amy McDonald Roberts
  • 1993: Sandra Nowland Hopko
  • 1992: Christopher Yan-Chi Chow
  • 1991: Timothy Kyle McKelvey
  • 1990: Joseph E. Cates
  • 1989: Timothy Alan Brown
  • 1988: Kimberly E. Switzer
  • 1987: Bryan Thane Wood
  • 1986: Quintin J. Lai