Join MLK Scholar Dr. Sonya T. Smith as she discusses some of her research interests as well as her national & international activities to increase the number of Women in STEM careers.

Dr. Smith obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from The University of Virginia (UVA) in 1995 and was the first African-American woman to do so. She joined the Howard University faculty in 1995 and is the first female Professor in Howard's Department of Mechanical Engineering.   She has established an interdisciplinary theoretical and computational research laboratory entitled the Applied Fluids-Thermal Research Laboratory (@FTERLab).  

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