Joe_Tranquillo

Keynote Speaker

Joe Tranquillo
Associate Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Bucknell University

Keynote and Workshops

Presentation

The Small Things We Do That Add Up - Improving the Learning Environment for our Students

Biography

Joe previously served as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management and co-founded the Bucknell Innovation Group and KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience. Off campus, Joe is an ASEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, BMES Fellow, National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Fellow, Senior Member of IEEE, NSF Pathways to Innovation Faculty Fellow, past chair of the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division, co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool Biomedical Engineering Book Series, Media Director for BigBeacon and serves on several national and international boards. He has been recognized with awards including the National Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award, ASEE Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator, and has been nominated twice for the CASE US Professor of the Year. Joe has delivered over 100 intensive teaching workshops, including in Peru, Finland, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, United Kingdom and Columbia. Joe is the author of four books and over 200 articles and conference proceedings. His work, conducted exclusively with undergraduates, has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx, Gates Foundation, Google, LinkedIn, and CNN Health. He has received ~$3M in funding from NASA, NIH, NSF, Kern Family Foundation, VentureWell, Degenstein Foundation, and the US Department of Defense. Joe is an affiliate faculty member of Cornell University, an international faculty member at Universidad Catolica de Chile, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Utah. Outside school, he loves to cook pasta, brew beer, travel and run ultra-marathons. He has performed with the Bucknell Dance Company, ElectroAcoustic Ensemble, the Techtonic Theater Company, Capacitor Dance Company, Chocolate Heads Movement Band and Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble. He is a dad to two wonderful children (Laura and Paul) with his wife (Lisa).