George r. wodicka

Biography

George R. Wodicka is the Dane A. Miller Head and Professor of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. Professor Wodicka attended The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, where he received the B.E.S. degree in biomedical engineering with both departmental and university honors in 1982. He was then awarded a fellowship from the Raytheon Company to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received the S.M. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree in medical engineering in 1989. From 1987 to 1989 he was a graduate instructor in the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, Professor Wodicka received the Harvard-M.I.T. graduate award in medical engineering for service to the academic community. Since joining the Purdue faculty in 1989, Professor Wodicka has received the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award in 1991, the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award in 1993 and again in 1997, the Honeywell Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994, the A.A. Potter Outstanding Teaching Award in 1997, and the D.D. Ewing Outstanding Teacher Award in 2000. In 2009 he received the Faculty Award of Excellence in Leadership from the Purdue College of Engineering, and in 2010 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty.

Research Interest

Biomedical acoustics, speech acoustics, acoustic modeling, biomedical signal processing, acoustic biosensors, medical instrumentation