Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2018 | Page 3

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Cover Story
Tamara Guimaraes Bucalo, a graduate student from Brazil, will receive her PhD in Spring
2018 and take a post-doctoral position in Germany. "Engineering is already hard," Tamara
says, without the additional difficulties of people who say women can't do things, or aren't
smart, or good enough. Finding the right role models, she said, was essential for her suc-
cess.
Women are leading the way
in the department with '62
alumna Mary "Prim" Jones
(left, a retired executive
director of engineering at
Aerojet) and '00 and '03
Hokie Angela Scribben
(right, a research engineer
with the USAF Research Lab-
oratory at Wright Patterson
AFB, Ohio) taking an active
role in the department's Ad-
visory Board, and by being
mentors and role models to
SPRING engineers.
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