Two aerospace engineering students awarded SMART scholarships by Department of Defense

Published: April 18, 2022

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Two graduate students in aerospace engineering, Cody Shelton and Nick Nurre, were awarded prestigious Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarships.

Shelton, a third-year doctoral student from Austin, Texas, will work for two and a half years – then have guaranteed employment after graduation — at the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center’s Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, Miss.

Nurre, a first-year doctoral student from Huntsville, Ala., will work four summers – and four years beyond graduation — at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center at Redstone Arsenal, near his hometown.


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