Victoria Lynn Coverstone (also published as Victoria L. Coverstone-Carroll) is a retired American aerospace engineer, the former chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami,[1] and a professor emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Optimal cooperative power-limited rendezvous, was supervised by John Prussing.
[4] She was one of 122 astronaut candidates in her year to be interviewed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but ultimately was not selected because her eyesight did not meet the standard.
[5] Instead, she remained at the University of Illinois as an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, beginning in 1992.
In 2016, she moved to Texas Tech University as a professor of mechanical engineering and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs,[1] and in 2017 she moved again to the University of Miami to chair the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.