Rate My Professor Michael Henshaw

Professor Michael Henshaw is Professor of Systems Engineering in the School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University. He holds a BSc (First Class Honours) in Applied Physics from the University of Hull (1983), a PhD in Applied Physics from the same university (1989) on computer modelling of hydrodynamic instabilities in spherical laser accelerated targets, and an MBA with Distinction from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside (1998). His career began as a Research Assistant at the Universities of Hull and York, followed by seventeen years at BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace) as an Aerodynamics Engineer, where he developed computational modelling for aeronautical systems and received a BAE Systems Chairman’s Silver Award in 1999 for innovation in aeroelastics prediction technologies. He joined Loughborough University in 2006 to lead a major multi-disciplinary project in Network Enabled Capability. Previously, he served as Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Systems Engineering at Cranfield University (2005-2006). From 2016 to 2020, he led the university’s Global Challenge in Secure and Resilient Societies. Since 2020, he has been Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience in the Wolfson School and Director of the Systems Engineering MSc and Level 7 Apprenticeship Programme.