Meera Day Towler, P.E.
Space Robotics Program Manager
Southwest Research Institute
Meera Day Towler, P.E., is a program manager for space robotics in the Intelligent Systems Division at Southwest Research Institute. She currently leads an initiative she built to transition advanced industrial robotics capabilities to meet the current and future needs of the space industry, both in orbit and on the ground.
With a background in controls engineering, she has worked on numerous technical research and development projects across robotics and turbomachinery. She has a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, as well as two undergraduate degrees (Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics), all from Southern Methodist University. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas with a specialization in Control Systems.
She is a San Antonio Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree for 2023.