Biography:Dean Neikirk
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Dean Neikirk is an American engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering #7 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][2]
Background and academic career
Neikirk pursued undegraduate studies at Oklahoma State University, where he earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from in 1979. He later received an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from California Institute of Technology.[3]
In 2013, Neikirk was appointed Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Texas.[4] Neikirk was involved in the development of the "electric tongue" which could detect nutrition and other properties of materials using advanced sensor technologies. [5]
References
- ↑ "Dean Neikirk". utexas.edu. https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/dean-neikirk. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
- ↑ "Neikirk, Dean". worldcat.org. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-neikirk,%20dean%20p/. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
- ↑ "Dean Neikirk". utexas.edu. https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/dean-neikirk. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
- ↑ "Prof. Dean Neikirk Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies". http://www.ece.utexas.edu/news/prof-dean-neikirk-appointed-associate-dean-graduate-studies. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ Dye, Lee (30 Nov 1998). "'Electronic Tongue' Offers a Taste of the Future". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/30/business/fi-49181. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
