Tania Gay

Tania Gay is a senior aerospace design engineer for Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of aluminum and the company that invented the modern-day aluminum industry.

A native of Mexico, Gay currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pa., USA, and works at Alcoa Technical Center, the largest light metals research and development center in the world. She holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in science from Florida Institute of Technology, where she majored in aerospace and mechanical engineering.

While studying at Florida Institute of Technology, Gay was an engineering intern at Matrix Composites in Rockledge, Fla.; a research assistant at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium during the summer of 2005; and a camp educator and assistant for the astronaut training experience program at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. She also played on the Florida Tech women’s varsity soccer team and tennis team and was named to the Sunshine State Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll in 2003 and 2007.