Benjamin Brelje
Multidisciplinary Optimization Staff Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Brelje is a multidisciplinary optimization engineer and Ph.D. candidate specializing in high-fidelity design optimization for electric aircraft and spatial integration problems in MDO, with eight years of industry experience across Joby Aviation and Boeing. He builds simulation and optimization tools that accelerate concept development, marrying aerodynamic modeling, systems integration, and engineering computing to make air transportation more sustainable. An NSF fellow and Tauber alum, he blends rigorous academic research with practical product-development impact—earlier work at Boeing delivered production cost and throughput improvements for the 787 program. Ben’s background in rotational engineering roles across commercial and defense programs gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on aircraft life-cycle tradeoffs. Outside of work he pursues fast-and-light mountain sports in the Cascades and documents his adventures on the Elevated blog, reflecting a continual focus on efficiency and exploration.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Aerospace Engineering, BSE, Aerospace Engineering at University of MichiganProfessional Certificate, Architecture and Systems Engineering, Professional Certificate, Architecture and Systems Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Portage Northern High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (84)
fenics10
computational-science10
mach10
parallel-computing10
optimization10
optimization-methods10
gradient10
parallel-processing10
gurobi10
mathematical-programming10
geometric10
aircraft10
dub10
nonlinear-optimization10
mixed-integer-programming10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdolab/openconcept
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
OpenConcept: A toolkit for conceptual MDAO of aircraft with unconventional propulsion architectures
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 138 commits in 2 years 1 month
architecturesaircraftmdaopropulsiondub
bbrelje/OpenMDAO
May 2020 - Mar 2021
OpenMDAO repository.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
openmdao
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