Alex Benson

I'm an Electrical Engineering graduate student at Colorado State University focused on embedded systems and AI for real-time sensing and control in aerospace and industrial environments. I completed my B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Aerospace concentration, Mathematics minor) in May 2026 and am pursuing an MSEE expected December 2027.

This summer I'm back at the Bureau of Reclamation as an Electrical Engineering Intern in Power System Analysis & Control. I'm doing QNX RTOS development for the next generation of digital hydropower controllers that will be in every power plant across the West. As Payload Team Lead for CSU's NASA University Student Launch Initiative, I led a nine-person team through design, build, and flight of a deployable soil-sampling payload—and wrote an honors thesis on subsystem integration and reliability in high-power rocket payloads.

Through roles at FIRST RF, BOR, and Woodward, I've worked across RF hardware, hydropower controls, and aerospace test engineering. I work best close to the hardware—debugging, designing, coding, and iterating.