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Hensel

Dr. Edward Hensel, PE

Professor and Department Head

Phone: 585-475-2162

E-mail: echeme@rit.edu

Office: 2203 Gleason

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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.