Dr. Johnson has been active in bioengineering professional activities since the early 1970s. He has served in numerous leadership positions and served as cochair of the project to establish the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 1991. This has given him perspective on the field from a unique combination of experiences.
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- A Biological Engineering Curriculum That Works
- A Call To Arms
IBE newsletter, Spring 2003
- The Age of the Cowboys
- A Fight Worth Fighting
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 4 (2008)
- A Horror Story
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2008)
- AIMBE as the Reliable Source
AIMBE News, September 2007
- Allowing Them to Fail
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 33 No. 2 (2009)
- A Lot to Think About, A Lot to Understand
BMES Bulletin, Vol 30 No. 2
- A Matter of Balance
AIMBE News, June 2006
- A Noble Activity
- Are Biomedical Engineers Doing Their Jobs?
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 33 No. 4 (2009)
- A Rose by Any Other Name is a Different Rose
Appeared in IEEE Pulse 2(1):50 2011
- ASAE Biological Engineering Initiative
ASABE Resource, Vol. 9, No. 11
- Attracting Industry
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 1 (2008)
- Back Track on Dual Track
ASABE Resource, August 2005.
- Bioengineering in the U.S.: The Rush Is On
- Biology Should Not Be Divided
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2005)
- Biological Engineering Elaboration
ASABE Resource, Jan/Feb 2009
- Biological Engineering: What It Means to Me
ASABE Resource, vol 19(4) pp.14-15 (July/August 2012)
- Biology Taught to Engineers
IEEE Pulse, Vol. 1 No. 2 (Sept/Oct 2010)
- Bookcases Empty of Old Friends
IEEE-EMBS Pulse, vol.3(4), p. 66, (July/August 2012)
- Bringing Life to Engineering: Biological Engineering at the Graduate Level
European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 28, No. 1, 37-46 (2003)
- Can the Chasms Be Bridged?
AIMBE News, August 2006
- The Care and Nurturing of Biological Engineering
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 8 No. 1 (Spring 2004)
- Caution: Medical Technology Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2010)
- Choosing to Play with the Big Boys
Appeared in the January 2011 issue of Biomedical Engineering News.
- Dollars is Not an Output
IEEE-EMBS Pulse, Vol. 2, No. 5 (Sept./Oct.), 84 (2011)
- Engineering Applied to Biology
ASABE Resource
- Essential Concepts for Biological Engineers
Biological Engineering Transactions, 3(1): 3-15 (2010)
- Evolution and "Biology for Engineers"
University of Maryland Faculty Voice, Vol. 22 No. 3 (2009)
- Finally Begun
BMES Bulletin, Vol 31 No. 2
- Fostering Biological Engineering
- Fostering Creativity
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2010)
- Gazing Into the Crystal Ball
AIMBE Newsletter (2008)
- Is It Name or Content that Counts?
IBE E-Life Newsletter, March 2012
- Letter to the Editor
Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Making of a New Discipline
- Math Aversion
IEEE-EMBS Pulse, vol. 3(3), pp. 56-57, (May/June 2012)
- Missionaries on a Quest
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2004)
- The Next Big Thing
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 10 No. 2 (Summer 2006)
- Of Life and Death, Motherhood, and AIMBE
AIMBE News, August 2007
- Oh Momma, Where's My Comma?
IEEE-EMBS Pulse, Nov-Dec 2011, p.80
- Old Man River
IEEE-EMBS Pulse vol. 3(2) p.74 (Mar/Apr. 2012)
- One Little Step for an Engineer
AIMBE News, April 2007
- Otto Schmitt and the Afterlife
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, May/June 2005
- Our Fundamental Commonality
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 30 No. 4
- Philosophical Foundations of Biological Engineering
Journal of Engineering Education, October 1995, 311-320
- PPE and Productivity
AIHA Synergist, November 2005
- Pride in Our Profession
- Respirator Selection: Remember the Worker
AIHA Synergist, January 2009
- Striving for Balance
AIMBE News, June 2006
- Threshold for Plagiarism
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 29 No. 2 (2010)
- Troubles in the Biology Classroom
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 31 No. 3
- To All Students Everywhere
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2009)
- To Keep the Well
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 3 (2008)
- Tribute to Pat Horner
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 1 (2010)
- Troubles in the Biology Classroom
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 31 No. 3 (2007)
- Veterans' Day
IEEE-EMBS Pulse, vol 3(5) p. 40 (Sept/Oct 2012)
- Walking Around Hollywood
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 31 No. 4 (2007)
- The Weak Sister
AIMBE News, January 2007
- What Does it Take to Be a Good Biological Engineer?
IBE Newsletter, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2008)
- What Is AIMBE All About?
AIMBE News, September 2004
- What Is Life, Really?
IBE E-Life News, December 2011
- When Scientists Get Involved in Public Policy
BMES Bulletin, Vol. 33 No. 3 (2009)
- Where Do You Get Your Technical Information?
IBE Newsletter, Fall 2007
- Who Should Belong To AIMBE
AIMBE Newsletter, January 2005
- Why Ag Engineers May Make Good Biological Engineers
(Submitted for publication.)
- The Winning Team
AIMBE News, June 2008
