UD Graduate Catalog 1997-1998
  College of Health and Nursing Sciences
   Biomechanics and Movement Science
Faculty in the Graduate Program
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sunil Agrawal, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Associate Professor,  Mechanical Engineering: Control of mechanical systems, robotics, optimization.
 
David A. Barlow, Ph.D. (Indiana), Associate Professor and Chair, Health and Exercise Science: Sport biomechanics, equine biomechanics, anatomy.
 
Kenneth E. barner, Ph.D. (Delaware), Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering: Signal and image processin in human movement and human-computer interaction systems.
 
Stuart A. Binder-Macleod, Ph.D., P.T. (Medical College of Virginia), Associate Professor, Physical Therapy: Neurophysiology, relationship between activation frequency and force output of skeletal muscle, muscle fatigue.
 
Richard Foulds, Ph.D. (Tufts), Research Professor, Computer and Information Sciences and Mechanical Engineering;  also Director, Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories: Gesture biomechanics,oculomotor study, telemanipulation, computer/human interaction, and gesture recognition.
 
Michael Keefe, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering: Geometric modeling of complex biological surfaces.
 
Irene S. McClay, Ph.D, P.T (Penn State), Associate Professor, Physical Therapy: Biomechanics, lower extremity mechanics, injury, locomotion, treatment, intervention.
 
Freeman Miller, M.D. (University of Colorado), Department of Orthopedics, A.I. duPont Hospital for Children: Pediatric biomechanics, birthing injury analysis, gait analysis of children with cerebral palsy.
 
Robert E. Neeves, Ph.D. (Utah), Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences: EKG interpretation, physiological response to exercise induced stress, cardiovascular function, and human organ plastination.
 
Tariq Rahman, Ph.D. (Drexel), Research Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences; also Research Associate, Center for Applied Science and Engineering: Application of extended physiological proprioception to the control of robots, and prostheses.
 
James G. Richards, Ph.D. (Indiana), Associate Professor, Health and Exercise Sciences: Device design and gross musculoskeletal modeling, gait analysis, sport biomechanics.
 
Michael H. Santare, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Associate Professor,  Mechanical Engineering: Fracture mechanics, continuum mechanics, composite structures, orthopedic biomechanics.
 
John P. Scholz, Ph.D., P.T. (Connecticut), Associate Professor, Physical Therapy: Movement coordination, movement disorders, regulation of limb stiffness.
 
Lynn Snyder-Mackler, P.T., Sc.D. (Boston University), Associate Professor, Physical Therapy: Neuromuscular physiology, applied anatomy, anterior cruciate ligament injury.
 
Jian-Qaio Sun, Ph.D. (Utah), Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering: Suppression of abnormal tremor, stability of human movement..
 
Anthony S. Wexler, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering: Human skeletal muscle, renal concentrating mechanism, deposition of atmospheric aerosols in human airways.
 

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