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Contributions to Starnet
- Senior Management
- Total P & L Responsibility
- Start-up through $20MM
- Business Sales Experience
Experience Summary:
- Thirty years experience in spaceframe
management, design, engineering, fabrication
- Test astronaut for space station
program
- Zero gravity test astronaut
- University lecturer
- Author
Education:
- Production Management/Industrial
Engineering, Cum Laude, Hofstra University, 1969
Professional Associations:
- American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics
- American Astronautical Society
- Lighter-Than-Air Society
- Association of Balloon and Airship
Constructors
- Airship Association
- Airship Explorers Club
Teaching:
- Over 40 lectures at major universities
including:
- Robert E. Muller Memorial Lectureship
Series, M.I.T.
- Space Station Design Workshop
Graduate Course #4.59, M.I.T.
- SU Lunar Campus, M.I.T.
- And over 50 lectures at architecture
and engineering firm and associations.
Experience in Depth:
- Wendel is featured in project
photos#: 2004, 2015, 2025 (at Zero G), 2031, 2032, 1524.
- President, Starnet International
has developed an institutional, Governmental and Commercial market
base for its spaceframes, domes and climatic envelopes. Established
himself as a visionary with the ability to innovate proven civil
construction technology to the many space program projects.
- President, STAR*FLITE Airships.
An entertainment/engineering firm set up to design, engineer,
fabricate and operate rigid airships. STAR*FLITE Voyager will
be the first of the new airship cruise line.
- President, MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT
VENTURES, Design, engineering, fabrication and operation of mobile
entertainment facilities such as trailer and barge based facilities
- Former President, Space Structures
Intl. For 15 years led this $10MM+ civil engineering/manufacturing
firm in the terrestrial spaceframe marketplace.
Publications:
- "Spaceframe Basics",
4th. Edition. A handbook for Spaceframe Design and Engineering
- 400 + pages
- "Guest Commentary",
Design News, 1983 lecture presentations
Lecture Presentations:
- Astrotectonics Construction
in Space, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
March 24, 1988
- Truss Joint System for Space
Structures STAR*BAY 3, International Space and Technology Seminar,
May 24, 1988, Sapparo, Japan
- Geometry, Packaging, Assembly
and Cost of Large Deployable Reflector Telescope, NASA Ames, LDR
Technology Planning Workshop, 1985
- Space Network Engineering, Space
Station Structures Discipline Working Session. NASA MSFC, 1985
- Assembly of Spaceframes - Space
Station User Working Group Panel, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, January
27, 1987
- Third International Space Structure
Conference -Spaceframe Forms, Where Visions Take Shape. 1984,
University of Surrey, England
- International Dome Structures
Conference Winooski, VT, 1981
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Government Participation Panel:
- Congress of the U. S. Office
of Technology Assessment, Panel of Technology changes and impacts
on the Building Construction Industries, 1984
- National Bureau of Standards,
Workshop on Measurement Technology for Automation in Construction
and Large Scale Assembly, 1985
- Computer System Development
- Architect of STAR*CAD (Starnet's
Computer Aided Design) computer system developed by the Starnet
Team. It is an integrated, high power design, engineering, fabrication
and management system
Inventions:
- Geo*Hub Spaceframe System Patent
#4,904,108
- OCTA*HUB Spaceframe System Patent
#4,449,843
- ORBA*HUB Spaceframe System Patent
#4,438,615
- Starnet Systems for space networks
Awards:
- Excellence in Design Award,
November 2 1981, for the invention of the OCTA*HUB spaceframe
enclosure system from Design News Magazine
- First Place Award - Plastic in Building Technology,
1979 for development of the Panel*Pac laminated paneling system
in Plastic World Magazine, 5/79
Media Coverage:
Radio
- WCBS interview of Wendel R.
Wendel on "Countdown to the Future" in three parts which
aired four times on November 11, 12, 13, and 14, 1986 and had
a listening audience of over 2 million.
Television
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