Speaker

Terry J. Hendricks

Biography :

Dr. Hendricks has recently re-retired from Blue Origin LLC (2024), where he served as the Director - Thermal Control Systems and Technical Program Director in the Advanced Development Program and Space Systems Development business unit. He briefly retired from NASA–Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology in 2021. He has over 40 years of professional expertise in thermal & fluid systems, nano-scale and micro-scale heat transfer, energy recovery, energy conversion and storage systems, terrestrial & spacecraft power systems, micro electro-mechanical systems, and project management. While at JPL, he was responsible for designing spacecraft thermal and propulsion systems, solar power systems, radioisotope power systems, thermal management and thermal energy storage systems critical to NASA missions. Prior to JPL, he was the Energy Recovery Program Director at Battelle Memorial Institute and Senior Program Manager at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he guided and managed U.S. DOE and Army projects in hybrid power system development, automotive & industrial waste energy recovery, military energy recovery, and advanced nano-scale heat transfer. He received his Ph.D. and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Texas @ Austin and Bachelor of Science (Summa Cum Laude) in Physics from the University of Massachusetts @ Lowell. His extensive expertise is embodied in 3 book chapters published by Taylor and Francis and Elsevier; and over 100 reports, conference papers, and journal articles in the Journals of Electronic Materials; Energy; Materials Research; Heat Transfer; Thermophysics and Heat Transfer; and International Heat & Mass Transfer. Among his numerous ASME, IEEE, and NASA recognition awards, he was inducted into the University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2019. Dr. Hendricks holds 9 patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California and Texas.