April 28, 2025
ME undergraduate Connor Fallot had the opportunity to speak with Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp and tour the headquarters.
Connor Fallot, ME senior
ME senior Connor Fallot recently participated in a UW College of Engineering Fireside Chat on campus with Dean Nancy Allbritton and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp that ended with a Q&A. Inspired by Limp’s advice to take risks and reach out to potential mentors, Fallot, instead of reading the question he had planned to ask, took a chance and asked to have lunch with the CEO instead.
To Fallot’s pleasant surprise, Limp agreed. A member of the university recruiting team for Blue Origin reached out to Fallot, who ended up meeting Limp for breakfast and receiving a tour of the company’s headquarters in Kent, Washington.
“It was an incredible opportunity to talk with Dave about the direction of the company and to get his perspective on Blue Origin’s engineering goals and milestones,” Fallot says.
Fallot also met with five engineers in various roles at Blue Origin, including employees who work on launch operations and mission control.
Fallot says that tour provided him with a new perspective on his career path as he prepares to graduate, helping him to see himself in the engineering world.
“It was great to see how the company supports both future and current engineers and how mentors can help you learn and grow in a real-world environment,” he says.
An engineering lead in the Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP) at the UW, Fallot has been interested in career opportunities in the aerospace industry, particularly rocketry. He made his aspirations clear at the tour, where he wore a shirt with his resume on it. Limp ended up signing the shirt.
“I’m interested in space exploration, and rockets are probably the largest and fastest missions we operate,” Fallot says. “I liked learning how Blue Origin is tackling challenges and trying new things, such as using cryogenic fuels, to improve future spacecraft development.”
In April, Fallot accepted an offer from Blue Origin for a thermal/fluids test engineer role on the Lunar Permanence team. He plans to continue to take risks when it comes to networking: “It’s worked out well so far.”