Unlike most people at NASA, Marianne Paguia Gonzalez never dreamt of finding her feet among the stars. If anything, she truly believed that the space exploration agency was an unattainable entity. Simply out of reach. Something she wouldn't dare to dream.
Currently, she has her hands full with the Europa Clipper. The spacecraft will perform close flybys of100 internships, one destined callback
Gonzalez started looking into further prospects - on how chemical engineering can come in handy to use resources from another planetary body. "That genuinely interested me," she says. A great example would be MOXIE itself, which demonstrated the autonomous production of oxygen on Mars. I had a sensor on that instrument that ended up being used for the ventilator project thatworked on. At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a team of JPL-ers who got together and started the technology development of a ventilator that is easy to mass-produce. They ended up getting a patent. I was able to contribute a little bit, to that effort.
And then something I don't like as much about my job is... . I feel like this is the case in a lot of places and is not specific to JPL or NASA. I'm very happy with my job overall. But a commonality that young women engineers face is inappropriate comments. And then, the fact that I am very much a minority in terms of ethnicity. There's not that many, you know, Filipinos, for engineers.
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