Tammy McCoy

Tammy, the youngest of nine children (7 boys & 2 girls) is a native of Beulah, a small town in the Mississippi Delta.  After graduating second in her class from Rosedale High School, Tammy continued on to Mississippi State University where she earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.  Tammy holds a M.S. in Materials Engineering from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and she is presently enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, where she will complete a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering.  Her research interests are in ceramic processing, specifically extrusion processing, sintering, and solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes, and STEM policy issues.  Her career mission is to work within engineering education where she can be directly instrumental to increasing the number of women and under-represented minority graduates in science, technology, and engineering fields.  Tammy considers it a privilege to work within the academic arena with students of all backgrounds and abilities, but receives greatest reward when she is able to serve as mentor and role model to those who may not have one in their lives.  She finds fulfillment not only in what she can teach students but also in what she can learn from them.  Her immediate career plans are to obtain a post-doctoral position concentrating on the design, testing, and implementation of better methods for attracting and retaining women and under-represented minorities to STEM fields.  She then wants to couple her post-doctoral experience with her extensive scientific background and work as director of a diversity program at a university or college.  Tammy believes that possessing a Ph.D. in engineering can potentially have a greater positive impact on those students participating in such a program, because she has navigated many of the same roads as the students.  Furthermore, the potential exists for her to influence STEM policy issues, thereby making changes on a national level.  Tammy also has plans to teach undergraduate materials science courses and serve on graduate student committees.  Beyond the university setting Tammy plans to create a non-profit organization that introduces minority and female teens in underprivileged parts of the nation (i.e. the Mississippi Delta) to science, technology, and engineering, with the primary goal being to give these students the necessary tools for making wise educational and career choices.  Outside of her academic world, Tammy enjoys reading, cross-stitching, playing softball, being active in her church, and spending time with family and friends.

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