Professor Rosemary Smith

Biography:

Rosemary Smith graduated with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Utah.  Her research applies micro and nanoscale materials and technology to realize new or improved sensors, actuators, biomedical microdevices and microfluidic instruments.  While a visiting research scientist at the Swiss Center for Microtechnology in Neuchatel, Switzerland, she developed a CMOS process for the manufacture of integrated chemical microsensors.  Subsequently, she was the Sinclair Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT, prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCDavis in 1988.  In 2003, she joined the faculty at the University of Maine as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technology.  She is a cooperating faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and a steering committee member of the Graduate School for Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE).  Professor Smith is a life member of the IEEE and recently served as a co-Chair of the Northern New England Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).  She has authored over 170 publications and has 10 awarded US patents.  Her most recent research projects include transdermal microneedle arrays for ISF analysis, microfluidic mixers for nanoparticle synthesis and microfabricated cell culture platforms for the study of stem cell differentiation.