Gregory Freisinger

Dr. Greg Freisinger is a 2006 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering and was an Army ROTC cadet. He was commissioned as an Engineer Officer and assigned to the 84th Engineer Battalion in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He deployed to Thailand on a humanitarian construction mission as a platoon leader and later to Iraq as Executive Officer of the Forward Support Company. Greg left active duty in 2010, where he enrolled at The Ohio State University eventually earning a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on orthopaedic biomechanics.

Dr. Freisinger was then hired as faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director. He has taught dynamics, vibrations engineering, and biomechanical engineering while advising varied capstone and independent study projects. Dr. Freisinger’s research interests include human performance, injury prediction/prevention/recovery, wearable sensors, and physical augmentation devices. He is also a Major in the Army Reserve, previously assigned to the 75th Innovation Command and recently began work at Keller Army Community Hospital as a professor in their Sports Physical Therapy Program.

Greg is a Class of 2014 Tillman Scholar and actively involved in the Tillman Leadership Institute.