She recently completed a three-month paid internship as a SMART Scholar Engineer with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Her job will be at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal Space and Missile Defense Technology Center in Huntsville. Supporting Space and Missile Defense Command divisionsWhat interests Benningfield most about engineering is how broad a field it is. At the Space and Missile Defense Command, Benningfield interned in the Concepts and Analysis Lab, with a cohort of eight SMART scholarship recipients and full-time engineers. She chose UW-Stout because it is the only NCAA Division III university that has both a mechanical engineering degree and a gymnastics team.