{"497591":{"#nid":"497591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Student Selected for SGT Outstanding Student Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering, announced this week that it has named GT-AE senior\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EShelby Bottoms\u003C\/strong\u003Eas the 2015 recipient of its Outstanding Undergraduate Award for the Southeast Region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second time in as many years that SGT has selected a GT-AE senior to receive this honor, which includes a $250 stipend. Last year,\u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda Grubb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;received the 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Award. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of Overland Park, KS, Bottoms was recently accepted into a graduate program focusing on bio-astronautic engineering for human spaceflight at the University of Colorado. Over the summer, she plans to work on a NASA rocket in Houston, TX, where she has accepted a job with Boeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Eventually, yes, I would like to be an astronaut, so I am doing everything to make that possible -- applying to the astronaut corps and taking the right career steps,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If that doesn\u0027t work out, I will still be doing something that I\u0027m interested in.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the last two years Bottoms has conducted research with GT-AE\u0027s Dr. Robert Braun - first, on the supersonic inflatable decelerator, and, more recently, on the thermal analysis of small re-entry devices that record break-up data.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sigma Gamma Tau, the national honor society for aerospace engineering, announced this week that it has named GT-AE senior Shelby Bottoms as the 2015 recipient of its Outstanding Undergraduate Award for the Southeast Region."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:27:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497601":{"id":"497601","type":"image","title":"Shelby Bottoms","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Shelby Bottoms","file":{"fid":"204638","name":"bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86262,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bottoms-shelby-sgt-southern_region_0.jpg?itok=EMzW3Tlx"}}},"media_ids":["497601"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171676","name":"Outstanding Undergraduate Award"},{"id":"2575","name":"Robert Braun"},{"id":"169904","name":"SGT"},{"id":"169905","name":"Shelby Bottoms"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}