David Jensen Email & Phone Number

Springville, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Springville, Utah, Us

D.E.R. services for aircraft certification.Consulting on aircraft and composite structures.Engineering consulting.Recently assisted Alpine Aviation on airplane cargo modification.

Provo, Ut, Us

Professor of Civil Engineering Introducing students to concepts of advanced materials and structural design in relevant areas of curriculum, including graduate courses in Design of Aircraft Structures and Design of Composite Structures.Associate Chair of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (May 2012 - Aug. 2015)Director of the Center for Advanced Structural Composites This center was initially sponsored by the State of Utah as a State Center of Excellence (July 1998- June 2004) and is devoted to the development of the structurally efficient IsoTruss® (patented and trademarked) grid structures. Conducting research on advanced composite structures and materials: 1) designing and characterizing “IsoTruss®” type composite lattice structures that optimize material and geometry for cost- and weight-critical applications; and, 2) automating manufacturing of composite lattice structures.Awarded multiple patents and IsoTruss® Trademark.Received state and national awards for innovations.

Provo, Us

Support Altus Poles in the design of a machine for automated continuous manufacturing of IsoTruss and other lattice structures.

Intensive industry experience as Head of Structures, directing the design, analysis, testing and certification of the innovative advanced composite structures employed in the state-of-the-art Spectrum S-40 airplane being designed and built by Rocky Mountain Composites under contract with Spectrum Aeronautical, LLC, of Carlsbad, CA (on sabbatical from BYU).

Assist in the design, analysis, testing and certification of the innovative advanced composite structures employed in the state-of-the-art Spectrum S-40 airplane being designed and built by Rocky Mountain Composites under contract with Spectrum Aeronautical, LLC, of Carlsbad, CA.

One of 10 university faculty competitively selected from across the United States to participate in the inaugural eight-week program in-residence at Boeing in Seattle. Exposed to key elements of industrial competitiveness and to the practice of engineering by “looking over the shoulder” of working engineers at all levels of the technical and management career paths. This industry faculty summer fellowship program was developed to have a direct impact on the curriculum of engineering programs and to assist faculty produce better-trained starting engineers in the future.

University Park, Pa, Us

Adjunct Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Jul. 1995 – Dec. 1995)Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Jul. 1991 – Jun. 1995 — on personal leave at BYU Jul. 93 – Jun. 95)Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Feb. 1986 – Jun. 1991)Improved undergraduate structures curriculum: 1) Created three-course structures sequence with lab; 2) Introduced technical elective; and, 3) Co-developed NSF-sponsored, interdisciplinary, multi-year, design course. Initiated graduate program in Structures & Materials (including two new graduate courses and improvements in core curriculum). Developed Composites and Smart Structures Laboratory (in Composites Manufacturing Technology Center) for basic and applied research: Sponsored research funding exceeded $1.9M (responsible for ~$1.2M as P.I. or Co-P.I.).

Performed research on composite-embedded fiber-optic strain sensors for smart structures.

Ph.D., Aerospace Structures

S.M., Aeronautics And Astronautics

Bachelor’S Degree, Civil Engineering

Engineering