Luke Jensen

Jensen is an undergraduate researcher and the president of the UW chapter of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honors society and the UW chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Jensen will begin his travels in South America via motorcycle, learning Spanish along the way, before moving on to Asia. Most importantly, he will travel with an open mind and a willing heart, to turn his engineering education into a well-rounded understanding of what comes next for him and his neighbors around the world.

Alumni Reflections

How did the Bonderman impact your life?

“Almost everything: Altered my world-view, made me comfortable with international travel which I have enjoyed in the years since, changed my career trajectory, led to me going to graduate school instead of directly to industry, and gave me an arsenal of stories which I tell to this day, 12 years later.”

What are you doing now?

“I am an airline pilot on the East Coast and work as a consultant in aviation environmental sustainability on the side. I’ve changed careers in that time, a move that would have been quite intimidating but was made quite straightforward due to the comfort with resourcefulness and uncertainty that came from the Bonderman.”