Editing Jan Davis (section)

== Engineering career ==
After graduating from [[Auburn University]] in 1977, Davis joined [[Texaco]] in [[Bellaire, Texas]], working as a [[petroleum engineer]] in tertiary oil recovery. She left there in 1979 to work for NASA's [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] as an [[aerospace engineer]]. In 1986, she was named as team leader in the Structural Analysis Division, and her team was responsible for the [[structural analysis]] and verification of the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] (HST), the HST maintenance mission, and the [[Chandra X-ray Observatory|Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility]]. In 1987, she was also assigned to be the lead engineer for the redesign of the solid rocket booster external tank attach ring. Davis did her graduate research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, studying the long-term strength of pressure vessels due to the [[viscoelasticity|viscoelastic]] characteristics of filament-wound [[composite materials|composites]]. She holds one patent, has authored several technical papers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer.<ref name="bio-NASA"/>