Edward Kinzel

Ed Kinzel

Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Contact

Email

Phone

574-631-8941

Office

377 Fitzpatrick Hall

Areas of Interest

Professor Kinzel’s research interests are centered on laser/material interaction with a focus on manufacturing/fabrication as well as sensing and energy harvesting.

Projects in his research group include:

  • additive manufacturing of glass for optics/photonics
  • scalable fabrication of metasurfaces/IR antennas for the control of thermal radiation
  • design of metasurface enabled uncooled IR microbolometers
  • implementing spectrometry/radiometry for microstructure control in metal selective laser melting

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2010
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2005
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2003