| Gladys Ngetich | |
| Birth Place: | Amalo Village, Nakuru County, Kenya |
| Nationality: | Kenyan |
| Citizenship: | Kenya |
| Education: | Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology University of Oxford (In progress) |
| Occupation: | Engineering tutor & doctoral student |
Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich (born c.1991) is a Kenyan engineer, and a Rhodes scholar,[1] [2] pursuing a doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom.[3] [4] She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the Babaroa Excellence Award.[5] [6]
Ngetich was born in Amalo Village, Nakuru County. She attended Lelaibei Primary School in Olenguruone. She studied at Mercy Girls' Secondary School in Kericho.[3] She was admitted to the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, in 2013.[3]
In 2015, Ngetich joined the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering. In 2016, she earned a Tanenbaum Fellowship, an annual fellowship awarded to Rhodes scholars for a multifaceted program in Israel. In 2018, Ngetich was named a Skoll World Forum Fellow for the work she is doing in Kenya to empower girls and women.[3] She also tutors engineering undergraduate students at Oriel College.[3] [7] [8]
In 2018, Ngetich was credited with a patent in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc.[3] Her research work has been in BBC Science and the Oxford Science Blog and Medium.[3] She received the ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, for her paper at the 2018 Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conference.[3]
Ngetich is the co-founder of the ILUU, a Nairobi-based non-profit that aims to inspire girls and women.[3] [9]
In September 2018, Business Daily Africa named Ngitech among its "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018".[10] In 2019 she started investigating sustainable space science using a Schmidt Science Fellowship.[11] As of 2023, she is involved in satellite and rocket fuel research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[12]