Robert L. Spilker, Sc.D.

  Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Biosketch

Robert L. Spilker received his undergraduate training in the Department of Aeronautics, University of Illinois, B.S. 1971, and his graduate training in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. 1972, Sc.D. 1974. After spending two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Aeroelastic and Structures Research Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Spilker joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering, Mechanics, and Metallurgy at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1976. In 1984, he joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Professor of Computational Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanics, and was Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department from 1994 - 2004. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, where he has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Bioengineering Division, the U. S. Association of Computational Mechanics, currently on its Executive Committee, the Orthopedic Research Society, and the American Society of Engineering Education. He serves as Past Chair of the Executive Committee of the U. S. National Committee on Biomechanics, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals in the areas of bioengineering and computational mechanics. Dr. Spilker is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.•

Curriculum Vitae

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Two-page version: SpilkerShortCV.pdf

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