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Elijah Harris

Elijah Harris

2021 Offered Gilman Scholarship

Hometown

Wilkinson, IN

Major

Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

College

College of Engineering

 

Offered the Gilman Scholarship, Elijah Harris, fulfilled this mission by seeking to enhance both his fluency in German and his professional skills through study abroad, including an internship at Zucrow Laboratories. A first-generation student at Purdue, Elijah was motivated by his long-term goals to communicate at a professional level in German and to collaborate on the international stage in his chosen field of aerospace engineering.

 

After joining the “Solids” team at Purdue as a freshman, Elijah grew from his dabbling in homemade rocket motors with his high school physics teacher to managing 20 members across four sub-teams as Structures Lead on the solid-fuel rocket team.  With his interest in propulsion, he later enrolled in the aerospace engineering curriculum and looked to both Germany and Zucrow Laboratories as the next step in his professional development.