Our Executive Mentors

Jenny Young

Jenny Young is an Aerospace Engineer for Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, and is the lead of the Thermal Engineering Department.  Jenny joined BCT in 2016 to spearhead thermal designs for innovative, small-satellite solutions to transform the space industry. 

Prior to joining Blue Canyon Technologies, Jenny was a Thermal Engineer at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado from 2004-2014. Her instrument designs have successfully flown on many NASA GSFC missions including GOES-R, the newest generation geostationary weather satellite for NOAA; MMS, a highly elliptical magnetospheric measurement, formation flying constellation; New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and MAVEN, a mission analyzing the Mars upper atmosphere and ionosphere.

From experience on high precision instrument design at LASP, she has evolved large aerospace design techniques into challenging small satellite program solutions for various Earth and Lunar orbits, and customers ranging from Universities to NASA JPL, NASA APL, NASA Langley, NASA Ames, DOD, and companies as diverse as Raytheon, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, Made in Space, PlanetiQ, and more. 

Jenny received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in 2002 and is an avid outdoor enthusiast. She is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion, empowering women, minorities, and youth in science, engineering, aerospace, and leadership.