Dan Jensen

Dan Jensen joins the college as director of engineering to prepare adaptive engineers committed to blending science, engineering and the arts. A senior fellow at the International Design Center at Singapore University of Technology and Design and MIT, he spent 21 years teaching engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has worked on the design of hundreds of products, processes and services. The author of more than 135 peer-reviewed papers, he has secured grants totaling $6 million in research funding and overseen the creation of dozens of patents. He earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The new engineering program blends courses in engineering, physics, mathematics and chemistry. It equips graduates to find innovative solutions to enduring problems by cultivating collaboration, problem-solving and moral discernment. Twenty-five new students have joined the program this fall.