The Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board was founded in 1989. The board includes 12 members who are alumni and friends of the Biomedical Engineering program from a variety of career paths, including industry, academia and medical school. The board advises the program on academic, research, and service matters. It considers matters such as recruiting, curriculum development, course content, laboratory equipment, program enhancement, and student placement. Two meetings are held annually. The fall meeting is held the day after the senior honors banquet, typically a Friday in late October or early November. An important service provided by the board members at this meeting is to hold mock interviews for our seniors to help prepare them as they begin their post-graduate careers. The spring meeting is held in early May and is combined with the college's senior design conference. Board members attend the seniors' project presentations and provide feedback on the quality of the projects. One role that they perform during the fall is to act as interviewers in a "mock interview" segment of the Biomedical Senior Seminar course. During the spring meeting, they provide feedback on the students' senior design projects and they also interact directly with students to provide feedback about their experiences with the program's courses, faculty and other elements in an anonymous manner

 

Academic Year 2011–2012 Advisory Board Members

 

1. Jazzmyne Buckels (Term: 2010-2013)

Texas Back Institute (Innovative Spinal Technologies)

Plano, TX

 

2. Eric Fontenot (Term 2011-2014)

Senior Project Manager

St. Jude Medical Center

Plano, TX

 

3. Cynthia Dickey (Term 2011-2014)

Process Engineer

Mar Tech Engineering

 

4. Henry Bonin (Term: 2011-2014)

Senior Product Development Engineer

Smith & Nephew Orthopedics

Memphis, TN

 

5. Matthew Womack (Term: 2011-2014)

Clinical Product Manager & Service Support Manager

MeVis Medical Solutions Inc.

Milwaukee, WI

 

6. April Jones (Term: Fall 2011-2014)

Clinical Engineer II, New Products and Clinical Engineering

Cyberonics, Inc.

League City, TX

 

7. Bill Ross (Term: Spring 2011-2014)

Director of Drug Information and Instructor (Retired)

University of Louisiana at Monroe

 

8. Kerri Tainter (Term 2010-2013)

Formerly with the Biomedical Research Foundation

Bossier, LA

 

9. Jonathan Pyle (Term: 2010-2013)

Field Engineer

GE Health Care

Ruston, LA 71270

 

10. Glenn Walker (Term: 2006-2012)

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

 

11. Clifton F. Frilot, II, Ph.D. (Term: 2006-2012)

Assistant Professor

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - School of Allied Health Professions 

Shreveport, LA

 

12. Carole A. McLemore (Term: 2009-2012)

Project Manager

NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center

Madison, AL

 

13. Michelle R. Dawson, Ph.D. (Term: 2011-2014)

Assistant Professor

School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

 

Rev.: 7/26/2011