Lee Waite

Lee Waite received a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa Statue University in 1980 and went to work as a design engineer for Fisher Controls, Marshalltown, IA. In 1983 he returned to graduate school, and received the MS and PhD in biomedical engineering. Waite is currently Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is head of the Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering and also the Director of the Eli Lilly / Guidant Applied Life Science Research Center. Waite worked as a visiting scientist at the University of Heidelberg, Heart Surgery Laboratory, in Heidelberg, Germany during the summers of 1999 through 2005 and taught at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Kanazawa, Japan during the 1993-94 academic year. Waite is a registered professional engineer in the state of Iowa. His research interests include modeling blood flow, and the biomechanics of running. His hobbies include foreign languages (German and Japanese), mountain climbing (Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1997), travel (30+ foreign countries), and reading. Waite is the author of Biofluid Mechanics in Cardiovascular Systems, McGraw-Hill, 2005, and serves on the Technical Advisory Panel for Axiomed Spine Corporation. Dr. Waite is also the President of the Atsina Charity Medical Clinic, a 501-c3 public charity whose mission is to provide medical care for the sick and poor of Ghana.