Kayley Seawright ’14, M’19

Kayley Seawright of Charleston has two Clemson mechanical engineering degrees: a 2014 bachelor’s and a 2019 master’s. She has professional certifications from Stanford, MIT, UCLA and Cornell, and completed Private Pilot Ground School through Embry-Riddle.

She joined Boeing in 2015 as a structural analysis engineer, and has supported multiple programs, including the CST-100 Starliner space capsule, NASA’s Space Launch System, future commercial airplane programs, and the Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueling vehicle. In 2022, she assumed her current position in the South Carolina Delivery Center as a customer engineering delivery account manager for the 787 Dreamliner. She serves as the primary technical interface to global airline customers, and negotiates and authors delivery commitments. Kayley served as an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson’s Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in North Charleston in 2021-2023. She was selected for Boeing’s premier leadership development program, Leadership NeXt, in 2023-2024, and moved to Frankfurt, Germany, on a temporary international assignment at the Frankfurt Airport.

Kayley is active in STEM outreach across South Carolina, engaging K-12 students – and especially young women – in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. While education relations chair for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), she connected industry professionals with classrooms and coordinated outreach programs to expose students to aerospace and engineering. As Boeing’s “Clemson Focal,” she leads the company’s enterprise-wide collaboration with the university to facilitate student recruitment and hiring, capstone projects, research and events.

Her work has been recognized with a U.S. patent, two Boeing Research & Technology Performance & Innovation awards, and DiscoverE’s New Face of Engineering award.

A former undergraduate student body president, Kayley has served on the Clemson Alumni Association’s board of directors and on its Young Alumni Council. She is a donor to the Clemson University Foundation and IPTAY.