Feb. 3 Downtown Reception:
Brent Sherwood OPC '76

Brent Sherwood OPC '76, an aerospace engineer currently working on Boeing's robotic space exploration systems, was the keynote speaker at the Feb. 3 Downtown Reception.

The reception, hosted by the Alumni Society and held again this year at the Union League of Philadelphia, is intended for OPCs, parents and friends of the school.

More on Brent Sherwood:

Brent Sherwood joined Boeing in 1988 to become the system configuration designer for his childhood hero, space exploration conceptual engineer Gordon Woodcock. Together they developed advanced designs for manned Mars-mission vehicles that were exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum for many years.

It was at Yale University that Brent determined to combine his principal interests of architecture and space by pursuing a career as a space architect. After graduating summa cum laude from Yale with a double major in architecture and art history, Brent earned a master's degree from Yale's School of Architecture. His final project was the design of two space stations, one sized for 20 people and the other for 2 million.

Brent earned a second master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. His thesis, "Engineering Planetary Lasers for Interstellar Communication," was published as a NASA report.

At Boeing, Brent has done manufacturing engineering for the International Space Station, program development for commercial payloads on the Russian Mir Space Station and for the Sea Launch joint venture, and business development and project management for commercial space and space science. Currently, he is program manager for robotic space exploration systems and resides in Houston.