My Engineering Journey

From a young age, I was a typical Lego kid — constantly building, rebuilding, and inventing new creations with whatever pieces I had. I also spent countless hours making things out of paper, most of them weapons, with my most notable creation being a detailed Assassin’s Creed-style hidden blade knife that actually functioned with a rubberband spring mechanism.

2026 - Boise State Dean’s List

BSU Microgravity Research Team

I spent an incredible week in Houston where we tested our hardware at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. I’m really proud of what our Boise State Microgravity Research team accomplished over the past year.

As the lead designer, it was an amazing experience watching our project go from initial sketches to a fully functional piece of hardware. We developed SPUD (Secure Passive Universal Dock) — an equipment retention device that proves the simplest, most manufacturable solution is often the best. I’m happy to say it performed exceptionally well during underwater testing and successfully met all the challenge criteria.

Huge congratulations to the entire team for building such a clean and highly functional device!

Special thanks to astronaut Steve Swanson and our industry SME Sarah Haight for their guidance and support throughout the project and during our trip.

Want to see SPUD in action? Check out our proposal video below: https://lnkd.in/g_zNEgQ6

Research Project

As part of my role as Research Assistant…

Young boy working on a small robotics project with electronic components and wires on a table.

This is me at about age 10 making a “robot” out of an old CD , a battery and a vibrating motor.

Logan Galdabini standing on a dam overlooking a large reservoir with rocky canyon walls in the background. The boy is wearing a blue and gray jacket and casting a shadow on the concrete surface.

When I was 14, I was amazed by the Hoover Dam — especially the engineering behind those massive functional doors controlling the Colorado River. An absolute masterpiece of civil and mechanical engineering.

Group of seven people standing side by side in front of an indoor swimming pool, smiling at the camera. The pool has diving boards and flags from different countries hanging above.
Poster on simulating electromigration in 3D microelectronics with sections on introduction, physics, simulation results, validation, software, and references. Contains equations, graphs, and diagrams related to current density, temperature, stress, and atomic depletion.