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 Edward
Hensel
Professor
Phone: 585-475-7684
E-mail: echeme@rit.edu
Office: 2203 Gleason
Biography:
Dr. Edward Hensel is a licensed Professional Engineer with a Ph.D. in
mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University. He holds a bachelor
of science degree in mechanical engineering, with distinction, from Clarkson
University in Potsdam, NY. He is currently professor and department head of
Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He teaches
senior design project and product development classes in mechanical
engineering, as well as a variety of technical subject areas. Dr. Hensel has
a recognized entrepreneurial track record in developing externally funded
research programs, and has consulted to a variety of startup companies,
multi-national corporations, US National Laboratories, and the Department of
Defense. He has lectured internationally on various research topics, and has
taught short courses to researchers in the USA, France, and Russia. Dr.
Hensel has served on the State of New Mexico's Governor's Business Advisory
Committee and Governor's Science and Technology Committee. Dr. Hensel was previously
the director of development of a small company that manufactured and marketed
high-tech electro-pneumatic paint ball guns and other pneumatic products. In
this capacity, he gained experience in small business startups, SBA and
industrial loan programs, SBIR contracting, and product development.
Dr. Hensel has worked in a variety of technical areas over the course of
his career. His PhD dissertation and subsequent research activities were
focused on inverse heat transfer, remote sensing technologies, and algorithms
for high temperature applications. Application areas included temperature and
heat flux diagnostics of high energy devices, aerospace vehicles, and thermal
control of avionic test and evaluation systems. Dr. Hensel worked for several
years applying the concepts of remote sensing and inverse theory to the
characterization and remediation of hazardous and nuclear waste disposal
sites, and detection of foreign objects below ground. Prior to coming to RIT,
Dr. Hensel was actively involved in running a manufacturing facility that
focused on product development by student teams, and using innovative
technologies for modeling and compensation of manufacturing equipment.
Dr. Hensel's focus at RIT is on the formation
and guidance of multi-disciplinary teams to tackle a wide range of
engineering problems. He is interested in fostering technology advances in a
multi-disciplinary setting, so that students and faculty from a wide range of
backgrounds can develop innovations and learn the state of the art in
engineering.
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