Douglas Dow
Bio
Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the School of Engineering (started 2008).
Education
B.A. in Liberal Arts Engineering from Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL);
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University (College Station, TX);
M.S. in Computer Science from University of Colorado (Colorado Springs, CO);
M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).
Worked in industry for about 9 years at Ampex Corporation (video systems manufacturing) in Colorado Springs CO, Panasonic (central research lab) in Osaka, Japan, and National University of Singapore (center for image enhanced medicine) in Singapore. Post Doc or Sabbatical research was done at Tohoku University (biology information systems) in Sendai, Japan, Mayo Clinic (respiration research lab) in Rochester MN, and Kansai University (knowledge information systems) in Osaka, Japan.
Core focus involves embedded electronic systems for applications in medical rehabilitation, health monitoring, physical therapy, assistive technologies and applications related to power and energy. These involve development of hardware and software systems with sensors, embedded control and mechanical actuators. Applications include respiration monitoring, sleep apnea, rehabilitation of impaired muscle for recovery of motor function, health monitoring for elderly to extend independent living, and diabetes management. These systems utilize internet of things (IoT) for remote communication between patient, medical staff, care-givers and instrumentation.