Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Biography
Brian Fiegel is an instructor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri. Fiegel brings more than 25 years of industry experience in embedded systems, RFID technology and software engineering to the program, paired with six years of engineering education experience developed during his graduate studies at the University of Iowa.
Before returning to graduate school, Fiegel spent two decades building systems ranging from bare-metal embedded firmware to large-scale cloud-hosted applications, including toll collection systems at Lockheed Martin and ACS/Xerox and RFID reader systems at ThingMagic/Trimble, work that produced two U.S. patents. He later served as director of software engineering at Buoyant Technologies and co-founded Sensor Ventures, where he has worked on digital circuit design and embedded firmware for sensor and controller boards. Fiegel earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering and his MS both from the University of Iowa.
Fiegel’s engineering education research centers on student metacognition, using the Deliberate Practice Engine, a web platform that gives students targeted, gamified practice with immediate feedback. His applied research focuses on hardware and software systems for whole-body vibration measurement, including custom sensor arrays and data acquisition hardware. He brings hands-on, systems-integration thinking, the kind that defines mechatronics, from industry practice into the classroom.
Education
PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa
MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst