Mike Trego
For Mike Trego, there's nothing more fascinating than designing jet engines. Not only has that been his motivation for a 28-year career with Honeywell, but his leadership on engine designs for business aviation propulsion business pursuits just won him the Honeywell Aerospace President's Award. The award recognizes employees who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in improving customer focus, resulting in significant impact to business growth, execution, quality, sales wins, cross-functional collaboration, cost savings or standardization/process improvement. Trego credits his success not only to his strong engine performance background, but also to "great friends to work with who are experts in their respective fields, forming teams that I can count on to get the job done."
Trego graduated BYU in 1986 with his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering creating another link in a chain of Trego's involved in the discipline; Mike's father-in-law is a mechanical engineer, his younger sister Angie graduated with a PhD in ME at BYU, and his daughter Marsie is a sophomore in ME at BYU (pictured above with her "Joan of Archery" entry in the 2014 Nephi's Bow Competition, also shown is Madison Boyer). Engineering is truly in the Trego blood.
He married his wife, Melinda Chappell (BA Statistics, 1986) in their last years studying here. They now have three children; Marsie, Jeffrey, and Anna.
Aside from designing jet engines with great success, Mike also enjoys hunting and fishing. He applied his engineering skills to build a long range 7mm custom rifle which he used to successfully down a Coues deer at 860 yards during the last hunting season.
