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EDUCATION
CAREER / EMPLOYMENT
1998
- present Head,
Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering,
Director,
Eli Lilly / Guidant Applied
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
1993-1994
Visiting Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Kanazawa
Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan.
1987-1998
Assistant/Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering,
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
1980-83 Design Engineer at Fisher Controls International Inc. Responsibilities included technical design,
project management, and interface with drafting, marketing, manufacturing,
sales and purchasing personnel,
ACADEMIC
RANK
Professor
- July 2002
Associate
Professor - July 1993
Assistant
Professor - November 1987
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited by the German ambassador to the
2006, 2007 - Visiting lecturer in
cardiovascular physiology. Eight hours of
cardiovascular physiology lectures for first year medical students.
2005-2007 - Invited to serve on the 5 member
selection committee for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 selection cycles of the German
Academic Exchange Service scholarships for study and research in
2004 – present – President
of the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium; the oldest continually running
bioengineering symposium in the
1998 – present – President and co-founder of the
Atsina Charity Medical Clinic (ACMC) Inc.
The Atsina Charity Medical Clinic is a non-profit medical clinic in
1997 – present – Executive
Board member of the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium.
Two time invited participant in the German Academic
Exchange Service program, "Germany Today." Twenty Americans are
invited each year at DAAD expense. The programs that I attended took place in
Arranged and escorted a summer study exchange
program with
Chairman of the Rose-Hulman Foreign Studies Committee,
1990 - 1996. This committee has the responsibility for developing and
administering study abroad (
Invited lectures in
Engineering
education in the
Ethical Issues in
Engineering; May 20, 1994; Kanazawa Institute of Technology Research Group on
Science, Technology, Society and Policy; Tokyo, Japan
Engineering
Education in
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
State
of
Foreign
Languages – German, fluent
- Japanese
(1 year of study in
-
Russian (1 semester at Iowa State Univ., 1 quarter at RHIT)
Birthdate - 1/23/1957
Private
Pilot since 1989
Skydiving
-32 jumps
July
1997 - Climbed to the summit of
RESEARCH GRANTS
2001-2006 Eli Lilly and Company,
Eli Lilly and Company Applied
1995-2000 Eli Lilly and Company,
Eli Lilly and Company Applied
1992-94
National Science Foundation,
Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant, "A classroom of the
future to teach the dynamics sequence," P. Cornwell, J. Fine, D. Logan, D.
Purdy, D. Stienstra, L. Waite, $100,000.
1991-93
American Heart Association,
In
vivo determination of lactate using a polarographic,
enzyme coupled, catheter tip electrode - $23,989.
PUBLICATIONS LIST
Waite, L. and Fine, J., Applied Biofluid Mechanics. (2007) McGraw-Hill, In press for
May 2007.
Waite. L., and Waite, G.
(Co-Eds.), Applied Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers.
(2007) McGraw-Hill.
In press for June 2007.
Chen, H. K., Waite, G.,
Miller, P., Hughes, E., Waite, L., 2007, Monitoring temperature and light
exposure of biosamples exposed to ultraviolet and low energy radiation. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Vol. 43,
In Press.
Waite, L.
(2006) “Biomedical fluid mechanics education in
Trobaugh, Derek W., Walter X. Balcavage, Ellen F. Hughes, Lee. R. Waite, Gabi
Nindl Waite. 2006 Quantitative Studies On Biological
Water Oxidation: A Novel Mechanism Of T
Cells and Antibodies. Biomedical
Sciences Instrumentation, Vol. 42, page 310-315.
Waite, G. N., L.R. Waite, E.F. Hughes, W.X. Balcavage, 2005. Biophotonic hydrogen peroxide production by antibodies, T cells, and T-cell membranes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Vol. 338, No. 2, pp. 1110-1117.
Waite,
L. Biofluid Mechanics in
Cardiovascular Systems. First edition. McGraw-Hill, December 2005.
Nindl, G., Hess, W., Waite,
L., and Balcavage, W. A photochemical microreactor
used to analyze hydrogen peroxide (H202) production of T
lymphocytes” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 41, p. 187.
Sathe, C., Nindl, G., Waite, L. Catheter-tip sensor to monitor production of hydrogen peroxide in
small biosamples. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 41, p.
193.
Szabo, G., Soans,
D., Graf, A., Beller, C., Waite, L., Hagl, S., A new computer model of mitral valve hemodynamics
during ventricular filling, 2004, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Surgery 26 (2004) 239–247.
Nindl,
G., Peterson, N., Hughes, E., Waite, L., and Johnson, M., 2004, Effect of
hydrogen peroxide on proliferation, apoptosis and interleukin-2 production of Jurkat cells, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume
40, p. 123-128.
Johnson,
M., Waite, L, and Nindl, G., 2004, Noninvasive treatment of inflammation using
electromagnetic fields: current and emerging therapeutic potential, Biomedical
Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 40, p. 469 – 474.
Waite, L. R. & Nindl, G. 2003, Human embryonic stem cell
research: an ethical controversy in the
Sharma, H.A., Balcavage, W. X., Waite, L. R.,
Johnson, M. T., Nindl, G. 2003, Characterization of a real time H2O2
monitor for use in studies on H2O2 production by
antibodies and cells. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 39, p.
554-560.
Soans, D., Szabo, G., Bolind, C., Waite, L.,
2002, A variable valve area, lumped-parameter model of
left ventricular filling. Biomedical
Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 38, p. 483-488.
Boozer, M., Finch, A., Waite, L., 2002,
Investigation of the relationship between arch height and rearfoot
motion during running. Biomedical
Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 38, p. 203-207.
Franck, C. ,Waite, L. ,
2002. Mathematical
Model of a variable aperture mitral valve. Biomedical Sciences
Instrumentation, Volume 38, p. 327-331.
Waite, L. R., Schulz,
S., Szabo, G., Vahl, C. F., 2000. A
lumped parameter model of left ventricular filling - pressure waveforms. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume
36, p. 75-80.
Waite,
L. R., Wu, Y., Farr, J., 1998. Automatic
determination of patellofemoral kinematic parameters
through x-ray image processing.
Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume 34, p. 321-326.
Waite,
L.R., Gao, J.X., 1996. Patellofemoral Joint Study via Image Processing. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Volume
32, p. 151-160.
Waite,
L.R., Kawabata, H.K., 1994. A comparison between American and Japanese Engineering Curricula. Proceedings of the Japanese
Society of Engineering Education annual meeting, pages 43-46. (Published in Japanese
only).
Weinzapfel, B., Ball, M.D., Waite, L.R., Lim, S.P., 1993. Tracking plasma lactate
concentration in vivo with a catheter-tip l-lactate sensor. Proceedings of the AAMI 28th annual
exposition and meeting, page 94.
Waite, L.R., Weinzapfel, B.,
Fine, J.M., and Waite, L.R., 1991. A new course in spatial problem solving. Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques,
Fine, J.M., and Waite, L.R., 1991. Spatial problem solving in an integrated first-year curriculum. The Mathematica
Journal, Vol. 1, p. 62-67.
Lash, J.M., Bohlen, G.B., and Waite, L.R., 1991. Mechanical characteristics
and active tension generation in rat intestinal arterioles. American Journal of Physiology,
260:H1561-H1574.
Waite,
L.R., Ford, S.P., Young, D.F., and Conley, A.J., 1990. Use of ultrasonic Doppler
waveforms to estimate changes in uterine artery blood flow and vessel
compliance. Journal of Animal
Science, Vol. 68, p. 2450-2458.
Waite,
L.R., Ford, S.P., Young, D.F., and Conley, A.J., 1990. Use of Doppler ultrasound
for early pregnancy diagnosis in dairy cattle. Proceedings of the 7th
meeting of the European Society of Biomechanics, p. 63.
Waite,
L.R., Young, D.F., Ford S.P., 1989.
Microcomputer based analyzer for the assessment of Doppler ultrasound
blood velocity waveforms. Biomedical
Sciences Instrumentation, Vol. 25, p. 113-118.
Waite, L. R., and Young, D. F.
1987. Interpretation of flow
waveforms in bovine uterine arteries.
Proceedings, 40th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology p. 153.
Weerappuli, D. P., Young, D. F., Rogge, T. R., Ford, S. P., Conley, A. J., Waite,
L. R. 1986. Computer simulation of blood flow in bovine
uterine arteries. ASME 1986 Advances in
Bioengineering, pp. 84-85.
CONSULTING
2003
to present - Axiomed Spine Corporation - Engineering Review of the FreedomTM Lumbar Replacement Disc Device Design – I serve
on the Axiomed technical advisory panel for this device.
Barnes
& Thornberg - biomedical fluid mechanics
questions, August 2005.
Bamberger, Foreman Oswald and Hahn, LLP - biomechanics of shoulder dystocia, February - May 2001.
Wright,
Shagley & Lowery - CSX rail car accident
investigation, February - March 2000
Tofaute & Spelman - biomechanics of reflex
sympathetic dystrophy, Jan. – Aug. 1995.
Trueblood Law Firm
- investigation of an improper design of an in-home traction device, December
1994 - January 1995.
PATENT
"Method
and means for detecting pregnancy in domestic farm animal species" (U.S.
Patents 4,869,260 and 4,744,368)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
MEMBERSHIPS
Rocky
Mountain Bioengineering Symposium (RMBS), President
American
Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
American
Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
Biomedical
Engineering Society (BMES)
COURSES
TAUGHT
BE
550 - Biomedical Instrumentation
BE
530 - Biomechanics
BE531
- Biomechanics II
BE
525 - Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
BE200
– Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
EM
103 - Introduction to Design
EM
104 - Graphical Communication
EM
120 - Statics
EM
202 - Dynamics
EM
203 - Mechanics of Materials
EM
301 - Fluid Mechanics
ME
304 - Machine Dynamics
ME421
- Mechanical Engineering Senior Lab