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NASA Hispanic Heritage Month Employee Profile — Abigail Rodriguez — Glenn Research Center
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Abigail Rodriguez serves as a structural materials engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. In this capacity she provides technical engineering expertise that assures incorporation of safety, reliability, quality assurance, and materials and processes in hardware development, fabrication, testing and operation efforts for aerospace and aeronautical projects. She also provides risk management insight and oversight to different projects.
Abigail began here NASA career as a spring intern in 2009 at Kennedy Space Center and a summer intern at Glenn from 2009–2012. She also served as a pathways intern from January 2013 to June 2014 before being hired full time in the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate as a Materials and Processes Engineer.
Born in Queens, NY, Abigail moved to Añasco, Puerto Rico when she was a year old. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in construction engineering and management from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.
Abigail has been recognized with a 2016 Early Career Achievement Medal.
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