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Biography

Franz Busse is an affiliate faculty member at BYU. He has recently served as an adjunct faculty teaching Mechanical Engineering courses and as a director of student-led projects in BYU’s Ballard Center for Social Impact. He is the founder of Grey Wolf Analytics, which provides system analysis and solutions for critical problems. His background is in Guidance, Navigation, and Control, and most of his technical career has centered on system and mission analysis and architecture. Before that he worked for multiple startups, focused primarily on technology development and technology strategy, and technology team leadership. Dr. Busse also worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for nearly 15 years, starting as a technical staff member, and then as an assistant group leader, and finally as a senior staff member. While at Lincoln, he led projects related to homeland security and defense. He worked on missile defense systems, energy systems, satellite systems (including CubeSats), disaster response systems, and UAVs. Dr. Busse received his MS and PhD from Stanford University (2003), and his BS from MIT (1995), all in aerospace engineering.

Dr. Busse has authored a handful of books, from allegorical fantasy to his most recent work, Parables of an Engineer, where he applies his engineering perspective to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is happily married and has five amazing children.

This is his current area of research at BYU: "I am deeply interested in developing quantitative and analytical techniques for the social impact field, as well as in religious contexts. I seek ways to use system understanding to solve problems that will help people live better lives. And at heart, I am always an engineer, so I am also interested in developing and deploying awesome technology to solve problems. I have extensive experience in modeling and simulation and applying those techniques to gain deeper understanding of problems and potential solutions."

Education

• Ph.D., aero/astro engineering, Stanford University, 2003
• Master of Science, aero/astro engineering, Stanford University, 1998
• Bachelor of Science, aero/astro engineering, MIT, 1995

Languages

• Dutch; Flemish