Evelyn Madewell earned her B.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington in May 2024. As an undergraduate researcher in the Autonomous Flight Systems Lab, she worked on wilderness search and rescue, hazard-aware landing optimization, and beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations, presenting this work at the 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum. She also completed industry internships as a flight test engineer at Freefly Systems and with Hood Technology, focusing on UAV flight testing and GPS-denied visual navigation.
Evelyn joined the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) at Texas A&M University in Fall 2024, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering focused on Dynamics and Controls. At Texas A&M, she has contributed to the Real-time System Identification of UAS project and has participated extensively in flight test activities. In Summer 2025, she interned with Stratolaunch, working on guidance, navigation, and control for the Talon A vehicle. She is a recipient of the Aerospace Graduate Excellence Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research interests include flight test engineering, system identification, and guidance, navigation, and control for autonomous systems.