Barbara Kegerreis Lunde

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1964. Barbara Kegerreis Lunde (born 1937) is an American physicist and electrical engineer. She worked for NASA in the 1960s, where she developed several instruments for various projects. Lunde became the second woman to graduate from Iowa State University with a doctorate in physics and the first woman in Iowa to become a professional electrical engineer.

Biography Lunde, the daughter of an electrical engineer, physicist and radiologist, grew up in Elmhurst, Illinois. After high school, she earned a bachelor's and master's degree in physics at Northwestern University in 1957 and 1959, respectively. After graduation, Lunde was hired at MIT, working on the design of guidance systems for the minuteman missile. where helped develop a more simple jet propellant system for use in space.

Lunde moved to Ames, Iowa where she helped build a radio station and where she also started studying at Iowa State University. Later in 1970, she became the second woman to graduate from Iowa State with a doctorate in physics. Lunde was also the first woman to become a professional electrical engineer in Iowa. She called the company Silver Lining.

Lunde started working as an aerospace technologist for the FAA in 2003 as a Training Specialist. She retired in 2013 and moved to Minneapolis.