Biomedical Engineering Faculty
Dr. Joe Hassan
Dr. Yawen Li
Dr. Eric Meyer
Dr. Anca I. Stefan
Dr. Marianne R. Wilhelm
Dr. Elin Jensen
Joe Hassan, Ph.D.
College Professor
Dr. Joseph Hassan joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Lawrence Technological University in 2011. He earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from the University of New Brunswick ...more
Dr. Yawen Li received her BS and MS from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and her PhD from MIT, all in materials science and engineering. She went on to complete her postdoctoral training in the Center for Engineering in Medicine affiliated with both the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her main research interests are in materials processing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for biomedical applications and tissue engineering ...more
Dr. Eric Meyer
Assistant Professor
Ph. 248.204.2606
emeyer@ltu.edu
Dr. Meyer received his BS, MS, and PhD from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering. His research topic was lower extremity biomechanics during sports injury. He then completed his post-doctoral training at the Centre for Bioengineering at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in cartilage tissue engineering and mechanobiology ...more
Anca I. Stefan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Stefan earned a Diploma and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The Ohio State University ...more
Marianne R. Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
Ph. 248.204.2510
Fax 248.204.2527
mwilhelm@ltu.edu
Dr. Wilhelm received her BS in Chemical Engineering and her MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering, from Wayne State University. She has previous industry experience in the automotive industry in research and development, project management, and manufacturing. She also worked as a Research Associate at Wayne State University’s Bioengineering Center following graduation. She has been involved in several ballistics and sports impact biomechanics projects, including blunt ballistic trauma related to female body armor, the assessment of leg surrogates for anti-vehicular land mines, skin penetration due to less-lethal munitions, and mild traumatic brain injury in female amateur boxing. Dr. Wilhelm also serves as an alumnae volunteer for Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority and is currently the advisor of the LTU Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) student chapter ...more
Acting Program Director
Elin Jensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research
College of Engineering
Dr. Jensen received her Ph.D from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Her specialization is Material and Structural Engineering. Research interests include construction and highway materials with special emphasis on Portland Cement Concrete, highway analysis and design, and distress development of concrete pavements as affected by environmental and mechanical lading. Her research work is based on experimental and finite element methods. Dr. Jensen is an active member of the ACI Committee on Fatigue of Concrete, ISCP (International Society for Concrete Pavements), ASCE, and SWE.