Kristen L. Billiar, associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Only about 2 percent of ASME’s more than 130,000 worldwide members have attained the fellow grade.
The first biomedical engineering professor at WPI to receive this honor, Mr. Billiar, who has an appointment as an adjunct associate professor of surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, has also been named to the executive board of ASME’s Bioengineering Division and appointed an associate editor for ASME’s Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
