VFF Scholar Spotlight: Stacy Sidle

摘要

Stacy Sidle, a two-time Vertical Flight Foundation scholarship winner, is pursuing her doctorate degree at the University of Maryland's Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center under the advisement of Dr. Inderjit Chopra. Since childhood, Stacy was always an excellent student, with a particularly high aptitude for mathematics. She obtained her B.S. in physics in 2004 from Rhodes College, and received a M.S. in physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. For the next six years, she taught high school mathematics in Austin, Texas. Feeling unfulfilled as a teacher, Stacy returned to school for aerospace engineering at Maryland. From her first day of class in helicopter aerodynamics, taught by Dr. Gordon Leishman, Stacy knew she had found her true calling as an aerospace engineer.