Professor Charles Gregory Jensen
Current Address
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: (801) 422-6540
Fax: (801) 422-0516
Email: cjensen@byu.edu
General Information
Born 1953
U.S. Citizen
Married
Seven Children
Short Bio
Dr. C. Greg Jensen was hired as an Instructor in the Brigham Young University Design Engineering Technology program in 1983. In January 1985, he accepted a tenured track position as an Assistant Professor of BYU and taught four more years before taking a leave of absence to work on his PhD at Purdue University. During his leave, the Design program was merged with BYU’s Mechanical Engineering program. Upon his graduation in 1993, Dr. Jensen returned to the Mechanical Engineering Department and has developed a strong research focus– blending mechanical design, manufacturing processes, and CAx tools. These processes and tools are utilized in the following current efforts: Customization of CAx Tools and Methods; Global Collaborative Multi-user Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing; Engineering Design and Modeling within the context of Computer Aided Geometric Design, Parametric CAx Modeling, and Multi-discipline Design Optimization; Manufacturing Processes and Machining that support the Direct Machining of CAD Geometries and Curvature Matched Machining of Complex Geometries.
Dr. Jensen is the Director of the NSF site for v-CAx which is part of the Center for e-Design. Since 2000, he has served as the BYU GM/PACE Coordinator and has received five outstanding awards and recognitions from this consortium of 52 world-class Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing institutions selected by GM, Siemens, Autodesk, HP, Sun/Oracle, etc. Because of his PACE collaborations with these 52 national and international schools, he was selected as the first Fulton College Professor of Global Engineering, a position he held for three consecutive years. He has authored or co-authored 98 peer-reviewed publications, and numerous other technical reports, user manuals, articles, non-reviewed proceedings, etc.
He has worked professionally for Boeing, Lockheed, United Technologies, and Raytheon. As a professor he has consulted with many engineering firms, and has helped them implement and deploy their CAx tools in a more robust manner. Since joining BYU, approximately 75% of his research funding ($5.5M total) has resulted from his relationship with industry. The remaining 25% was government funded. Dr. Jensen currently works with 32 graduate and undergraduate students on funded, partially-funded, or pending research.