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John W. Clark, Jr. Bioengineering Department records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 412
Finding aid note: Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Content Description

The collection consists of materials from the career at Rice University of Dr. John W. Clark, Jr., professor in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering. He was instrumental in the founding of the latter; thus the collection includes records of the development of its curriculum from 1989 through 1997. The collection also includes records of Dr. Clark’s participation in the work of several university committees, specifically Parking, Graduate Student, Admissions, and the Library. In addition there is material prepared for evaluation of courses to determine ABET accreditation in 2005.

Dates

  • 1989 - 2011

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

John W. Clark, Jr. was born December 24, 1936, in Rochester, New York. Before embarking on his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering at Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, he served for three years in the U.S Marine Corps. He began his graduate work at Case Institute of Technology, earning an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1965, followed by a Ph.D. in engineering at Case Western Reserve University in 1967.

He served as a Research Associate at Case Western Reserve in 1967-68 and then in 1968 was appointed an Assistant Professor at Rice University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He advanced through the ranks at Rice, becoming a full professor in 1979. While teaching and supervising graduate theses, he conducted research in neural and cardiac electrophysiology, mathematical modeling of biological systems, applying signal processing methods to biological systems, nonlinear system dynamics, and electromagnetic field theory.

In 1989 Dr. Clark initiated discussion with five Rice colleagues, in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials sciences, biology, physics, and biochemistry, and a representative of Baylor College of Medicine, on the formation of an interdepartmental program, which became the Department of Bioengineering. In 1992 he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and in 1993 he became a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Biology at the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

At the time of his death at 80 in August 2017, Dr. Clark held professorships in both the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Bioengineering Department in his forty-ninth year of teaching at Rice.

Extent

0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

The collection consists of materials from Dr. John W. Clark, Jr., professor in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. The collection also includes records of Dr. Clark’s participation in the work of several university committees, specifically Parking, Graduate Student, Admissions, and the Library. In addition there is material prepared for evaluation of courses to determine ABET accreditation in 2005.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred to the Woodson Research Center via Melissa Kean.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the John W. Clark, Jr. Bioengineering Department records
Status
Completed
Author
Mary Tobin
Date
2019
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

https://library.rice.edu/woodson
Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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