Dr. Edward S. Kolesar

Office Tel. No.: (817) 257-6226

Lab Tel. No.: (817) 257-7704

Email Address:
e.kolesar@tcu.edu
WebPage
http://www.engr.tcu.edu/home/faculty/kolesar.htm

Adjunct Faculty W. A. Moncrief Professor of Engineering, Texas Christian University

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1985
M.S. Air Force Institute of Technology 1978
B.S. University of Akron 1973

Areas of Expertise

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Silicon Micromachining and Anodic Bonding, Microelectronics and Electronic Materials, Gas Sensors and Organic Semiconductors.

Background

Edward Kolesar has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Engineering at Texas Christian University since August 1993. He received his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Akron in 1973, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1978, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985. Prior to joining the TCU faculty, Ed was a Professor and Deputy Department Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, from which he retired as a Lt. Col. Since 1995, Ed has teamed with Technispan, Inc., Pikesville, MD and SRI International, Menlo Park, CA on a DARPA/SBIR research program whose thrust is to produce a MEMS-based gas chromatography + ion mobility spectroscopy system capable of detecting toxic compounds of national interest. During the summer of 1996, Ed and one of his undergraduate research assistants, Peter Allen, initiated a co-operative Internal Research and Development (IR&D) program with the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corporation, Tactical Aircraft Systems Division, Fort Worth, TX, to apply microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology in the aerospace environment. In 1998, Ed teamed with the Presby Corporation of Dallas, TX, and they are presently developing an artificial polymeric lens for the human eye that will be focused with a MEMS-based artifical muscle network. Over the past five years, Ed and his students have consulted with the American Research Corporation of Virginia, Radford, VA, the Perry Equipment Corporation, Mineral Wells, TX, the Mission Research Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, RockBit International, Inc., Fort Worth, TX, the Pragmatic Corporation, San Diego, CA, and Agilent Technologies, San Diego, CA..