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 and in August of 2025 with her Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering. She began her PhD with the lab in the Fall of 2025. Jillian has been an active member of the Aerospace Ambassador program since the Spring of 2021, 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, multiple time scale systems, and adaptive controls. She is working on her dissertation project with the Office of Naval Research on Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems. She is a two time recipient of the Aerospace Graduate Excellence Fellowship and a recipient of the 2025 Stanger Endowed Fellowship and the 2025 Outstanding Mentoring Award for Graduate and Professional Students.