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About Me

 

Raised in Baker City Oregon, a small farming and ranching community in Eastern Oregon, it was easy to find myself around heavy equipment. I was often seeking anything with an engine and wanting to discover how it worked or how to repair it. At this time I also became very fascinated in the art of welding. With my parents owning a local private agricultural equipment sales and repair business, I didn’t have to look far to practice two trades that I loved to do. Eventually, I wanted to extend my welding education and experience. After passing the D1.1 SMAW welding certification through Treasure Valley Community College, I gained a deeper love for the art and a profound respect for those practicing the trade today.

After graduating from Boise State University with a degree in  mechanical engineering, I was offered an opportunity to work as an Engineer In Training for an engineering consulting firm, FA Engineering.  FA Engineering offers services in several industries such as the industrial, food and manufacturing realms.  FA Engineering has several decades of industry experience combined among the actively licensed professional engineers. 
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I still enjoy welding, operating equipment and building things anytime I can. I have always enjoyed summer and winter power sports such as dirt bikes and snowmobiles.  High mountain lakes are worth the hike and composing music is very empowering.  Most importantly, I am a follower of Jesus. I believe that His love of God and love of people is essential to our lives.
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God bless,
Dusty Ray Gyllenberg
WORK EXPERIENCE
WORK EXPERIENCE

 

 

Mechanical Engineer

 

FA Engineering, Pocatello, ID                                                                                                                2020 - Present

  • Industrial piping 

    • Steam, water, process piping, and other utilities

    • Hydraulics, flumes, etc. 

    • Pumps and pumping systems

  • Material handling 

    • Pneumatic conveyors, belt conveyors, airlocks, dust collectors, and screw conveyors

    • Grinding and sifting

    • Bins, storage, chutes, etc

  • HVAC

    • Size and specify Air Handler and Air Make-up Units​

    • Ducting design

  • Project Managment

    • Manage engineering budget for various projects​

    • Facilitate client and vendor design reviews

    • Communicate design requirements across multiple disciplines

  • Work with drafters to create:​

    • General Arrangements - equipment layouts

    • Mechanical Drawings

    • Piping and Isometric drawings

    • Drawing Details

    • Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams​

 

Mechanical Engineering Internship

 

In The Ditch Towing Products, Mountain Home, ID                                                                             Summer 2019

  • Learned lean manufacturing wastes, terminology and tools to find wastes and improve shop flow

  • Worked with software such as SigmaNEST, Trump TruTops and SOLIDWORKS Sheetmetal

  • Improved knowledge of Microsoft Excel

  • Developed understanding of basic Sheetmetal design concepts such as bend allowance 

  • Applied lean manufacturing tools to improve processes such as value stream mapping

  • Helped in the welding and laser department when needed

 

Diesel Technician and Welder

 

Gyllenberg Equipment Inc., Baker City, OR                                                                                          2012 – 2019

  • Repaired and serviced farm and industrial equipment, trucks, ATV’s, snowmobiles, and small engines

  • Fabricated forage handling ag implements to handle hay or other crops

  • Completed welding repair projects on various ag equipment, included carbon arc gouging

  • Assembled, Demonstrated and manufactured new ag equipment for consumers

  • Machined obsolete parts for various agricultural applications

  • Operated tractors, dump trucks, bulldozers, and excavators to repair waterways and install culverts

EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2016-2020

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

GPA:3.95

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY

2016

D1.1 Welding Certification

TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

2016

BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

PROJECTS
PROJECTS

College and Course Inspired Projects

Turbo Jet Prototype - ME 497

To better understand the Turbo Jet inner workings, Jake Johnson, myself and a couple friends were interested in funding, designing (to the best of our ability), and building a Turbo Jet engine out of an automotive turbocharger.  In order to better understand the calculations we asked a faculty member at Boise State University to guide us in the analysis.  We began the concept and design utilizing resources available from similar projects but on a larger scale. 

 

One year later we were ready for our first start.  Our first test start was successful after a couple attempts of getting the fuel/air mixture within the proper range.  We ran a few times recording what data we could from the instrumentation we had implemented.  With our time running short at Boise State, we were only able to test a couple days and did not proceed with other ideas for the design. 

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After graduation, Jake and I decided to give back to Boise State and donated the engine to the Senior Design course where it awaits eager students to take on a new challenge.  

  

Air Cannon

With intent to complete an original project for our final Design Of Experiments lab in Experimental Methods, we decided to construct, optimize and test an air cannon.  The goal was to find the limits to our system while varying three independent components to our system.  We were then to collect enough data in order to predict settings for our system given a specific target. My group decided to vary projectile weight, barrel angle and air pressure.  As we did not succeed at our challenge, I learned several key things about collecting data such that collecting good data is just as important as the number of data points collected.  I learned that, even though it may take more time, stopping to improve the system when outliers are seen will result in a more robust system in the end.  We faced some design challenges during this project such as proper barrel length, finding a barrel of uniform diameter and the optimal projectile diameter.   

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We used an electric air/oil/water valve to release pressure with an external pressure gauge to measure the pressure in the chamber.  Our projectiles were slug-shaped, 3-D printed missiles.  At 30 psi we were able to see over 100 foot launch distances.

Human Powered Vehicle - Mechanical Engineering Club

One of the largest projects of my college career was the Human Powered Vehicle bike.  This was a part of the Mechanical Engineering Club at Boise State University.  This bike was completely designed and built from the ground up by a couple of my colleges and myself.  One of my good college friends, Jake Johnson, and I were able to build the bike in less than three months with a total of about 300 man hours of build time.  The HPV bike went on to compete in an ASME sponsored E-fest, in Pomona California, of which it competed in a variety of events. 

 

This was Boise State's first time at this event and yet the race team did very well.  Finishing fifth in women's drag racing, ninth in men's drag racing, fourth in the endurance race, eleventh in design and seventh overall out of twenty attending schools. 

 

We used two Huffy bikes, 70 feet of 1-1/4" x 0.125" wall tubing and a handful of hardware or other chunks of solid stock to machine out miscellaneous bushings and hubs. If it wasn't on the Huffy bikes, Jake and I either machined it or fabricated it, which made the project both challenging and fun.  This project taught me many things about system integration, machining tolerances and teamwork.  

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Enjoy some build photos!     

Barrel Drawbridge and Wind Energy 

As a part of the Engineering Living and Learning community my freshman year of college, we were tasked with choosing a final project that solved a problem and were given a budget to work with.  My group chose to explore a unique solution to a drawbridge called a barrel drawbridge that rotated the road around and upside down to create a clear passageway using large ring gears on either side. Although, highly unrealistic, we learned several things about Solid works, project revisions, and meeting a budget.  The Barrel Drawbridge was 3-D printed for demonstration purposes. 

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The wind energy project was a part of an introductory engineering course that was intended to widen our knowledge on magnets and how to produce the most power with a magnetic field.  We were to use either provided materials or materials of our own choice in an attempt to produce more power than the other groups in the class.  My groups generator featured RC car bearings for the drive shaft and hand carved balsa blades. After construction was complete we spun the generator in the wind turbine until failure.  In the end we learned that hot glue was not ideal for bonding the magnets because the magnets came apart and lodged the drive shaft.  In turn this caused that blades to snap because of the sudden drag force exerted by the wind turbine.   

Personal Projects

2009 Polaris Dragon Engine Work 

In need of some R&R, this Polaris Dragon got a fresh top end and a bit of an upgrade.    

Bumper for Dodge Ram Pickup 

Living in an area where wildlife is present along the highways, I decided to build my pickup a bumper.  I designed this bumper with integrated oil cooler intakes, recessed KC fog lights, light bar mount, hitch receiver and mounts for a winch plug-in.  This specific bumper I built from scratch and painted with two coats of automotive grade single stage paint using a HVLP paint gun.   I learned several things about automotive painting during this project, such that there are several surface features that will be exaggerated after painting and what features provide challenges when trying to evenly coat.  This taught me how important the prep work is before even mixing the paint.  

College
Personal
SKILLS
SKILLS

Program Skills

SOLIDWORKS - Intermediate

Pipe Flow - Intermediate

Microsoft Excel - Intermediate

Codes

ASME B31.3, BPV, B16.5, B16.47

IBC, IMC, NFPA, IECC

ASHRAE

AutoCAD Navisworks - Intermediate

CAEPIPE - Intermediate

Wrightsoft - Beginner

Technical Skills and Experience

GMAW, SMAW and TIG Welding

Agricultural and Industrial Technician

Machining

Equipment Operation

RESUME & TRANSCRIPT
RESUME & TRANSCRIPT

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COURSE HISTORY

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COURSE HISTORY
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Engineering and Related Courses

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  • ME 424 Thermal Fluid Systems

  • ME 462 Machine Design II

  • ME 481 Senior Design I

  • ME 483 Senior Design II

  • ME 450 Advanced Mechanics of Materials

  • ME 488 Design for Mfg and Assembly

  • ME 497 Special Topics - Turbo Jet Theory and Analysis

  • ME 320 Heat Transfer

  • ME 352 Machine Design I

  • ME 380 Kinematics and Machine Dynamics

  • ME 310 Experimental Methods Lab

  • ME 350 Engineering Mechanics

  • ME 330 Fluid Mechanics

  • ME 331 Fluid Mechanics Lab

  • ENGR 240 Electrical & Electronic Circuits

  • ME 302 Thermodynamics I

  • ME 271 Intro to Computation - MATLAB

  • ENGR 220 Engineering Dynamics

  • ENGR 210 Engineering Statics

  • ME 105 Engineering Graphics

  • ENGR 120 Intro to Engineering

  • CS 117 C++ for Engineers

  • MSE 245 Intro Material Science and Engineering

  • MSE 245L Intro Material Science and Engineering Lab

  • PHYS 212 Physics II

  • PHYS 211 Physics I

  • CHEM 111 Chemistry I

Mathematics and Related Courses

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  • MATH 360 Engineering Statistics

  • MATH 333 Differential Equations and Matrix Theory 

  • MATH 275 Calculus III - Multivariable & Vector Calculus

  • MATH 175 Calculus II

  • MATH 170 Calculus I 

Writing Courses

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  • ENGL 202 Intro to Technical Communication

  • ENGL 102 College Writing and Research

  • ENGL 101 Intro to College Writing

CONTACT ME

Dusty Gyllenberg

Mechanical Engineer, EIT

FA Engineering

Pocatello, Idaho

 

Email:

dgyllenberg47@gmail.com

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