It’s my job Emily Johnson Zieman ’02, ’04, Aerospace Engineering Lead Systems Engineer Legacy HELLFIRE Missile Launcher U.S. Army, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Typical day . . . troubleshooting
components and engineering — designing, problem solving and testing the fourrail launcher that flies on the Apache helicopter
Engineering challenge . . . military
systems require so much precision; it’s easy to get lost in the details, a specific problem or a part, and forget about the whole system
My Auburn Engineering . . . three years on the Baja SAE team taught me how to build things, not just to fabricate parts but make them work Geek moment . . . .my husband
Mike and I wrote a software program to control our Christmas lights — sometimes they blink or fade or the colors vary and rotate — the control box is bigger than most computers
Early on . . . I learned to love mechanical things working on a twelfth-generation cattle farm in Southboro, Massachusetts Turning point . . . in high school, I
realized that physics made the world make sense to me Sense of pride . . . realizing that
what we work on everyday helps keep our nation safe and knowing that it is important to the defense of our country Interviewed by Beth Smith
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