Program Chair, Biomedical Engineering

Professor, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Utah State University, 1998

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2000

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004

Dr. Blake Ashby’s area of specialty is biomechanics. Prior to joining GVSU, he worked several years as a biomechanical engineer at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, and at Woolley Engineering Research Corporation in Provo, Utah, providing technical expertise in the areas of injury biomechanics, sports biomechanics, occupant kinematics, accident reconstruction, vehicle dynamics, component and systems testing, and computer simulation of human movements. Dr. Ashby has collaborated with the Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy programs at GVSU on projects investigating work-related musculoskeletal disorders in sonographers and the limits of stability in sitting for children and adults. Other research projects include the biomechanics of human jumping and the effect of laminectomies on improving gait and balance.

Email: [email protected]
Location: 325 John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6753                                                                                                       

Professor, Product Design & Manufacturing Engineering

Email: [email protected]
Location: 347 Kennedy Hall of Engineering 
Phone: (616) 331-6405
 

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Professor, Product Design & Manufacturing Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1987

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1993

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1998

Dr. John Farris focuses on medical device design. He works in an ongoing collaboration with the Lincoln Developmental Center, a Grand Rapids public school serving approximately 120 severely impaired students, and Mobility Opportunities Via Education/Experience (MOVE). Through this collaboration, they have developed the prototype for a lean-activated wheelchair that responds to the user’s upper-body deflection as it improves trunk strength. Full-time graduate students in GVSU’s Biomedical Engineering program are playing a key part in getting this wheelchair to production as they work with Dr. Farris to improve its design as they participate in translational research.

Email: [email protected]
Location: 213 Innovation Design Center
Phone: (616) 331-7267                                                                                                  

Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Physical Therapy

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, 2002

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2004

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2014

Dr. Yunju Lee's research focuses on identifying mechanisms of human movement, underlying risk factors for musculoskeletal injury and motor impairments, and designing biomedical robotic devices to assist in rehabilitation as clinical treatment. She graduated summa cum laude from Pusan National University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and earned her M.S. with her master thesis on Surgical Robotics from KAIST. She worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer in South Korea and completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering studying in areas of Biomechanics and Human Movements at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and in the Department of Physical Therapy at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She currently work as a joint appointment in the School of Engineering, Padnos College of Engineering and in the Department of Physical Therapy, College of Health Professions. She is co-directing the Biomechanics and Motor Performance Lab (BMPL) as directing and advising with research projects for both students and faculty in GVSU.

Biomechanics and Motor Performance Laboratory (BMPL) – www.gvsu.edu/biomechanicslab/

Email: [email protected]
Location: 345 John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6043  

Director, School of Engineering

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

B.S. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Alexandria University, 1994

M.S. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Alexandria University, 2001

Ph.D. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, 2006

Dr. Mokhtar’s research is in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He worked in several experimental and numerical projects in cardiovascular system. He worked in developing biomedical training tools such as blood flow phantoms. His research in the area of Bio-Fluid Mechanics focuses on using CFD tools to simulation blood flow. He studied several cardiovascular diseases such as carotid artery stenosis.

Email: [email protected]
Location: 136 John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6015                                                                                                    

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Email: [email protected]
Location: 349 Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6664
 

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Director, School of Engineering Graduate Program

Professor, Electrical & Biomedical Engineering

B.E., Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Pune, 1994

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 1997

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 2003

Postdoctoral Anesthesiology Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2007

Email: [email protected]
Location: 253 John C. Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6267

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