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Faculty Profile

Dwight Ernest Waddell

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Biomedical Engineering
Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Diagnostics, Design, Devices, and Biomechanics
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C302 Brevard Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-2623
waddell@olemiss.edu
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Joined UM: August 17, 2006

Areas of Expertise

  • BIOMECHANICS
  • COMPUTER USE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
  • ENGINEERING, BIO-MEDICAL
  • EXERCISE SCIENCE
  • EXERCISE, MOTOR CONTROL AND FEEDBACK
  • NEUROSCIENCE
  • PHYSIOLOGY, NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

Brief Bio

My educational responsibilities earlier in my career were specific to data collection(s) for large NIH funded grants. I lived specifically on soft money while a faculty Research Scientist at Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology's Research Corporation, ATRP Program; Centers for Alternative Medicine, NIH- RO1 5 P30AT000609; National Institute of Aging, NIH -1R01- AG14767-0; and Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders NIH - 1 R30 AT00610). After leaving Georgia Tech, I took a clinical teaching position at Tulane University where I integrated my years of data collection and research expertise into a teaching platform attempting to make biomedical research and technology a part of my classroom narrative. It was at Tulane that I began to earnestly try and weave quantitative and qualitative biomedical issues into daily teaching… often to students coming from a minimal STEM background. Today, as an engineering professor and Biomedical Coordinator for the School of Engineering at the University of Mississippi, I continue to demonstrate and convince students of the applicability of their engineering skill set in numerous health and biomedical related fields.

Degrees

MS
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin (1991)
PhD
Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin (1998)

Committee Memberships

Eng.- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Ad Hoc Committee
Faculty Activity Report Task Force
Task Force
Sch. of Engineering Curr & Policy Comm.
Other Kind of Committee
School of Engineering Admin. Council
Other Kind of Committee

Awards

School of Engineering, Faculty Service Award
2017

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