Aerospace engineering student earns NASA fellowship

Honor includes internship at flight facilityA UT Arlington aerospace engineering student from Flower Mound has been awarded a prestigious NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship that will allow her to pursue her research into efficient jet engines in conjunction with the space agency. Ezgihan “Izzy” Baydar and her adviser, Frank Lu, professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department , were awarded the three-year fellowship that provides $135,000 in funding and includes summer internships at the NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.