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 Edward
Hensel
Professor
Phone: 585-475-2162
E-mail: echeme@rit.edu
Office: 2203 Gleason
URL: http://www.rit.edu/~echeme/
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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