Jillian Bennett, a member of VSCL since March of 2023, graduated in May of 2023 with her Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Minor in Mathematics. She will complete her M.S. in Aerospace Engineering with the VSCL this May and continue onto her PhD with the lab in the Fall of 2025. As an undergrad, Jillian was an active member of the Aerospace Ambassador program, becoming lead ambassador her senior year. She also welcomed freshmen to Texas A&M as a Fish Camp chair in the Summer of 2022. Additionally, in the Summer of 2022 she was the recipient of the Undergraduate Student Research Grant from Texas A&M. She has interned with Los Alamos National Laboratory and TAMU Material Science and Engineering, working on characterizing impacted materials. She has changed paths, gaining an interest in flight test engineering, reinforcement learning, and adaptive controls. She is working on her thesis project with the Office of Naval Research onĀ Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems. This summer, Jillian will intern with the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland, continuing her research on adaptive, multiple time scale control. She is a two time recipient of the Aerospace Graduate Excellence Fellowship.