Sven Esche
Sven Esche is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Diploma in Applied Mechanics in 1989 from Chemnitz University of Technology (former Karl-Marx-Stadt), Germany, and was awarded an M.S. degree in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, he is involved with research in remote sensing and control, remote experimentation, manufacturing, integrated product and process design, metal forming, and prediction of microstructure development in metals. He has been the PI or Co-PI on various grants from the NSF, NASA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and elsewhere, totaling more than $2.5 million. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and has interests in the assessment of student learning, project-based learning and remote laboratories. He has served as proposal reviewer for various National Science Foundation (NSF) programs and as consultant for the publishers John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill. He is the Faculty Advisor for Stevens’ student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals. At the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago, he received the Best Paper Award for his article “A Virtual Laboratory on Fluid Mechanics.”
