Gus Engstrom

Bio

After three years spent in the U.S. Army, Gus graduated with a BSME from Boise State University in 2008. Opportunity took him to Seattle where he worked as a design engineer in automated aircraft assembly for Electroimpact Inc. While working for Electroimpact, Gus was able to install and maintain equipment across both oceans, logging weeks (if not months) in both Japan and the United Kingdom while also securing his Professional Engineering license in both Washington and Idaho.

In 2014, a love for family and all things Boise brought Gus back to Idaho, where he took up a position teaching/coordinating/managing the Capstone Design program at his alma mater, Boise State University. Often describing his past-student-self as “the most obtuse senior ever,” Gus relishes this opportunity to “be the change” and open the eyes of a new generation of engineers to the many facets of professional engineering practice.

Among the many perks of working with brilliant students at an innovative and inspired university such as Boise State is the opportunity to rub elbows with astronauts at the nearly-annual trip to NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Courses Taught

• ME 481 Senior Design Project I
• ME 483 Senior Design Project II