不良研究所

Dr. Nicolás Jorge Hendrichs Troeglen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the 不良研究所, with nearly four decades of academic and professional experience.  He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Sheffield, an M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey. His career includes extensive teaching, research and administrative leadership at Tecnologico de Monterrey, where he served from 1986 to 2023 in roles ranging from Assistant Professor to Department Chair. He has engaged in multiple international visiting professorships in Italy, Spain, Argentina and Bolivia. His research focuses on materials and fabrication processes for automotive structures and the modeling of metal-fabrication processes, including incremental sheet metal forming and stretch bending.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Hendrichs has significant industry experience, including consulting for companies such as Sony de Tijuana, Cemex, Siemens de México, and Vitro. He has been actively involved in accreditation processes for undergraduate and graduate engineering programs with organizations such as ABET, AACSB, EQUIS, and CACEI. Widely recognized for his teaching excellence, he has received multiple awards, including being named "Teacher Who Left Their Mark" and "Favorite Professor of the Class" on several occasions. His scholarly output spans peer-reviewed journal articles, international conference papers and applied research projects, reflecting a career dedicated to advancing engineering education, manufacturing innovation and industry collaboration.

• Ph.D., Material Engineering, University of Sheffield, England, 1995.
• M.Sc., Material Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., 1989.
• B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, Mexico, 1985.

• Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, 不良研究所, San Antono TX, August 2023 to date.
• Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2008 to 2023.
• Associate Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 1995 to 2008.
• Assistant Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 1986 to 1995.
• Sabbatical (one semester), Università di Brescia, Italy, 2011.
• Visiting Professor (one week per year), Universitat de Girona, Spain, 2008 to 2010.
• Visiting Professor (one semester), Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007.
• Visiting Professor (one or two weeks per year), Escuela Militar de Ingenieria, Bolivia, 1998 to 2005.
• Industrias John Deere de Mexico, Sr. Plant Engineer, responsible for new facilities in the combine assembly department, 1985 to 1986.

• C. Chavez-Tolentino, N. J. Hendrichs, and H. R. Siller, “Surface roughness digital twin based on stereolithography physics for non-planar profiles,” International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), 2025, doi: .
• R. Pérez-Santiago, N. J. Hendrichs, G. Capilla-Gonzalez, E. Vázquez-Lepe, and E. Cuan-Urquizo, “The influence of the strain-hardening model in the axial force prediction of single point incremental forming,” Applied Sciences, vol. 14, no. 13, p. 5705, 2024, doi: .
• N. J. Hendrichs, E. Gaytán, J. Castellanos, H. Treviño III, and N. Vásquez, “Creatividad e innovación industrial a cargo de estudiantes de 4to año,” in Proc. XXXVI Congreso Chileno de Educación en Ingeniería (XXXVI Chilean Congress on Engineering Education), La Serena, Chile, 2024, (to be published).
• J. Vázquez et al., “MEDIIK: Design and manufacturing of an emergency ventilator against Covid-19 pandemic,” in Proc. 2021 11th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2021, pp. 106–114, doi: .

• Dynamics
• Engineering Analysis
• Engineering Physics 1
• Engineering Physics 1 Laboratory
• Introduction to Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanics of Materials Laboratory
• Numerical Methods

• Materials and fabrication processes in automotive structures.
• Modeling of metal-fabrication processes.
  • Incremental sheet metal forming prototyping processes.
  • Strech bending of sheet metal as testing method.