Joe Tranquillo

Joe Tranquillo


Joe Tranquillo is a faculty member at Bucknell University where he co-founded the Biomedical Engineering Program, Bucknell Innovation Group, KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience and serves as the co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management. He is a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Fellow, NSF Pathways to Innovation Faculty Fellow, Chair of the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division and co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool Biomedical Engineering Book Series. Joe is the author of three undergraduate textbooks and his work, conducted exclusively with undergraduates, has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx and CNN Health. Joe earned his BS from Trinity College, his PhD from Duke and has held positions at the Stanford and the Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago. Joe lives with his wife and two children in Lewisburg, PA.