Daniel Garcken

Daniel Garcken has been in the engineering field since 2009. Daniel began their career as a Student Instructor for Associated Students, Inc.-Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2009. In 2014, they became a Utilities Planner for Tidwell Excavating Inc and a Scientific Glassblowing Apprentice for Sci-Tech Glassblowing. Theirrole at Sci-Tech Glassblowing included glass tube cutting using diamond wet-saws and fire polishing using a glassblowing lathe. In 2017, they became a Research and Development Engineer for NEXT Energy Technologies. Most recently, in 2019, they became a Senior Spacecraft Mechanical Engineer for Umbra.

Daniel Garcken obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Materials Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo between 2008 and 2012.