Published January 16, 2008
Professor Andrew C. Hansen has been appointed to the new position of associate dean for graduate studies in the University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Applied Science.
"The position is a necessary leadership requirement for growing the college's, and
the university's, programs of graduate study and research," says Dean Robert Ettema."I
am especially pleased that the college was able to attract a person of Professor Hansen's
knowledge and experience to this position. I look forward to working closely with
him as the college grows its programs of research and advanced study."
Hansen will immediately focus on working with the School of Energy Resources to establish
energy-related curricular opportunities and research initiatives involving the college's
students, faculty, and staff. Other responsibilities include developing andcoordinating
other programs of graduate study (notably water, computer simulation, and infrastructure),
and pursuing and coordinating research projects and pertinent economic development
prospects. He will foster and manage the development of external support for the college's
research endeavors.
Hansen comes to the position from the college's Department of Mechanical Engineering,
where he has spent one semester since being the UW School of Energy Resources founding
academic coordinator from 2006-2007.
During his 20 years as a mechanical engineering professor, Hansen was an American
Council on Education Fellow (2005-2006), a Presidential Faculty Fellow (2003-2005),
received a John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award (1999) and was named
the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's Professor of the Year in
Wyoming (1993). He founded Firehole Technologies, Inc., and has served on several
UW, Laramie and statewide committees.
