Marcie Morrison
Mechanical Engineering
Class of 1999

After graduating with an ME degree in 1999 and marrying Adam (also an ME graduate) in 2000, I started an amazing career at Rolls-Royce Corporation as a Turbine Design Engineer. In 2005, after working with multi-million dollar government contracts as a Project Engineer, traveling as a Campus Recruiter and Workshop Lead at Rolls-Royce, I decided to leave corporate America to stay at home with our son Albie, and to increase my involvement in our community and congregation, Sanctuary Community Church. Adam and I have been heavily involved in authoring and editing mandatory technical standards for the FAA’s new industry-regulated Light Sport Aircraft category, and we have also founded Streamline Designs, LLC, a small engineering firm dedicated to enabling technologies in the light aviation market. So today I do technical audits, grant proposals, and airplane reconnaissance between feedings, playing ball and trips to the library!  It's a great lifestyle.  I have time to slow down and enjoy moments at home and church, and really enjoy our customer base as well.  We are also blessed and excited to be expanding our family with a second child this summer.

Rose taught me how to think, how to persevere, and how to MAKE IT WORK! We don’t always have the ideal environment, coworkers or resources, the professor that matches our learning style, the right tool for the job, or enough time to produce the kind of quality we would like to and get a good night’s sleep. There is only so much we control. At Rose, I realized that success is about standing on certain unmovable principals, not worrying about the things I can’t control, adapting with what I have, doing my best, and MAKING IT WORK. When I do these things, I don’t have to worry about the job or my reputation after the work is done.

My education at Rose-Hulman was also meaningful in that I can now intake, digest, and synthesize nearly impossible quantities of information, make informed decisions, and know the limitations of the assumptions I make. This applies to everything in life from Thermodynamic calculations to the clogged kitchen sink; from planning the Christmas service at Church, to designing a better wing spar; from presenting technical material to international businessmen to diagnosing my baby’s fever.