Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She serves as the Principal Investigator of the Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab, where she researches processes for translating biological capabilities into engineering systems. She is well known in the engineering community for her fin actuated autonomous underwater vehicles, or “fish robots,” which her lab displays each year at the Engineering Discovery Days. Dr. Morgansen received her PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 1999.