My journey from village school to award-winning aerospace engineer

Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich is a Rhodes scholar pursuing a doctorate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She is also the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the Babaroa Excellence Award.

While pursuing BSc in Mechanical Engineering at JKuat, I got interested in a field of mechanical Engineering called Thermofluids.

And when I was searching for a postgrad project I was keen to take up a Thermofluids related project. That is how I came across my PhD project (aircraft engine cooling) at the University of Oxford. That is how I ended up in aerospace. Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.