Jenni fell in love with engineering at a go-kart track in Utah, racing in the KT100 class. Racing taught her to wonder what was happening inside the engine and how to make it go faster.
When she turned 15, her dad bought a 1966 Mustang and made her a deal: if she wanted a car when she got her license, she had to get that old Mustang running. She learned the way engineers do, by taking things apart, figuring out why they didn’t work, and putting them back together better. Her love of engines grew alongside a passion for math and physics, and it took her to Brigham Young University, where she earned her degree in Mechanical Engineering.
At BYU she met another mechanical engineering student, Jake Glauser. They fell in love over problem sets and lab reports and were married their senior year. Their college friend group had several Jennifers, so her friends gave her a nickname to tell her apart: EnJen, short for Engineering Jenni.
She also joined BYU’s Formula SAE team, the student competition where each school designs and builds a small formula-style race car and then races it. Jenni designed suspension and was one of the team’s test drivers, which put the go-kart track and the Mustang to work at the same time. She spent an internship at Chrysler too, working on testing for the 2009 Dodge Ram pickup.
Living near Michigan International Speedway turned out to be a happy accident. The BYU Formula SAE team comes there to compete every June, and Jenni takes her daughters along to cheer them on.
Jet engines and the F-35
The nickname fit. Jenni spent four years in the aerospace industry working on jet engines, mostly as a Flight Test Engineer for Pratt & Whitney on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Flight test is where engineering meets reality. Every design assumption and simulation finally has to hold up in the air, and the job demands precision, careful planning, and calm problem-solving when the data doesn’t match expectations. Jenni loved it.
The little army
Then life took an unexpected and joyful turn. Jenni and Jake welcomed four daughters in five short years, including a set of identical twins. With a house full of little ones, Jenni’s focus shifted to raising what she affectionately calls her “little army of clones.”
She never stopped being an engineer. Running a household of four tiny kids is a constant series of systems problems: logistics, scheduling, resource constraints, and failure modes nobody anticipated. Jenni met them with the same tools she’d used on jet engines. She observed, measured, iterated, and found new and creative ways to make things work.
Back to engineering
Now that her daughters are in school, Jenni has returned to engineering full-time, in more directions than ever.
Product management. Jenni works in product management at software startups, and is currently the product manager at Orosa Wellbeing. She turns messy real-world needs into products people can actually use. She works at the intersection of users, engineers, and business goals, and she brings a flight-test mindset to it: define the requirement, test it against reality, and fix what breaks.
Clever apps. If a problem keeps coming up, Jenni builds a tool to solve it. Each one started with a real problem in her own family’s life, and each one makes some everyday task a little easier. They all live at enjeneer.win.
Crafting with nerd skills. Jenni is drawn to any craft that needs a bit of engineering: programmable LEDs, custom designs, and projects that need measuring, modeling, or a little code to come together. For her, the line between “craft” and “engineering project” is mostly a matter of vocabulary.
STEM in the schools. Jenni volunteers at her daughters’ schools and jumps at anything STEM-related. She loves helping kids discover that science and math are tools for making cool things, not just subjects on a report card.
Faith and service
At the center of Jenni’s life, and her family’s, is her faith in Jesus Christ. She is a devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and her membership, service, and devotion shape nearly everything the Glausers do.
For Jenni, faith and engineering don’t compete. One of her favorite scriptures says it well:
“…all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.”
Alma 30:44
As someone who loves physics, Jenni sees that witness everywhere. The predictable motion of the planets, the elegant math behind how the world works, and the order that makes engineering possible all point her to a loving Creator. She believes the curiosity and talents God gives each person are meant to be developed and used to bless others. The skills she uses to analyze a jet engine or build an app are the same ones she brings to serving in her congregation, ministering to friends and neighbors, and pitching in wherever someone needs help.
Faith is also the foundation of the Glauser home. Jenni and Jake are raising their daughters to know they are children of God with divine potential, to follow the Savior’s example, and to look outward for chances to serve. Church service, gospel study, and time together as a family are the steady rhythm that holds their busy household together.
Everyone can be an EnJeneer
Jenni is teaching her daughters that anyone can be an EnJeneer: a creative problem solver who sees something broken, inefficient, or frustrating and decides to do something about it. You don’t need a degree or a title. You need curiosity, persistence, and a willingness to take things apart.
The Glauser family motto sums it up: “Glausers leave it better than we found it.” Whether it’s a ’66 Mustang, a jet engine, a school science night, a neighbor in need, or a new app, that’s what Jenni sets out to do.