Grace Johnson

University of Maryland

Grace Johnson is a junior studying aerospace engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. There, she is part of the University Honors program, as well as the Aerospace Department Honors program. She works under Dr. Norman Wereley in the Composites Research Laboratory on campus, with her research focusing on tubular honeycomb structures for energy-absorption and crashworthiness applications. More specifically, she looks into the addition of buckling initiators within these structures, and their safety applications within launch and vertical flight vehicles.