Paul Fagette, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Office: Engineering 1 Building, Suite 116
10 West 32nd Street
Chicago, IL 60616-3793
Phone: 312.567.6934
Fax: 312.567.5707
Email:
fagette@iit.edu
Web:
Expertise
- History of artificial organs
Education
- B.A. History, California State Univ., Fullerton, June 1974
- M.A. History, California State Univ., Fullerton, June 1975
- Ph.D. History, Univ. of California, Riverside, Aug 1985
Research
Current Projects
- Develop a national program based at IIT for development and eventual inclusion of historic case studies into core undergraduate biomedical engineering courses.
- Continue to define role as historian for the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Guest Editor and contributor, Special Historic Issue of Annals of Biomedical Engineering, forthcoming.With CL Hall. A Critical Analysis of Historic Literature as a Mechanism for Teaching Biomaterials. Transactions of the Sixth World Biomaterials Congress, 15-20 May 2000:142.
Hemodialysis 1912-1945: No Medical Technology Before Its Time: Part I. ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs) Vol. 45, No. 4 (1999):238-249.
Hemodialysis 1912-1945: No Medical Technology Before Its Time: Part II. ASAIO Journal Vol. 45, No. 5 (1999):379-391.
Biomedical Engineering in the 1970s: Institutional Expansion. Proceedings of the First Joint BMES/EMBS Conference, 13-16 October, 1999:1250.
Biomedical Engineering in the 1960s and 1970s: A Bibliographical Retrospect. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology 16, no. 5 (1997):165-174, 176.
