Mrs. Jennifer Scott Williams was born in Oklahoma City, OK. As an Air Force dependent, she moved around often, which contributed to her ability to adapt to new environments quickly. After living in Tennessee, Washington, DC, Ohio, her family made its permanent home in Panama City, FL, where she graduated with honors from Bay High School in 1996. Thereafter, Jennifer attended Spelman College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received dual B.S. degrees in Mathematics and in Electrical Engineering via the Atlanta University Center Dual Degree Engineering Program in 2001. As a college student, Jennifer's intern experiences were with The Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester New York, where she worked in the Digital Photography group and with Lucent Technologies in the Systems Engineering
Group. Her main project with Kodak was learning to code 3 dimensional worlds in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), and with Lucent she authored the Feature Definition Document for the Remote Maintenance Terminal, a new software program used to install base stations onto wireless networks. Mrs. Williams also participated in research while in school. Her first project was in the area of Fuzzy Logic (a superset of Boolean logic that allows for the concept of partial truth), where she examined its use as a source of artificial intelligence for robotics systems. Thereafter she applied her knowledge of Fuzzy Logic to the Pioneer robotics system in her next project.
Her final project was in the area of Microelectronics, where she studied the effect of temperature on the threshold voltage of MOSFETs. While in school, Jennifer's participation with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) was extensive. As a freshman in college, she was a member of the Atlanta University Center Chapter Publicity committee. Once she got her feet wet in the organization, she became an active member and ran for Executive Secretary in her junior year. That year she was selected as Executive Board Member of the Year. She continued working with NSBE while attending Spelman and Georgia Tech concurrently in her senior year as the AUC NSBE Vice President. Once she graduated and moved to Houston to work for NASA, she joined the NSBE-HAE chapter before obtaining her current position as Vice President of the Houston Space Chapter. Mrs. Williams obtained numerous awards during her academic career. In addition to the Honor Roll and Dean's List, she was selected as an Eastman Kodak Scholar, a Clare Booth Luce Scholar, Georgia Tech Office of Minority Educational Development (OMED) Tower awardee, and the recipient of the Woman of Color in Technology Award for Student Innovation in 1999/2000 (given by the Career Communications Group). Currently Mrs. Williams is a Space Shuttle flight controller in the Instrumentation and Communications Group. She attends the University of Houston part time in the Telecommunications program, where she intends to graduate with her Master of Electrical Engineering in 2005.
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