Dr. Tom Zajdel

Biography

Tom Zajdel is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is broadly interested in motivating students to study electronics engineering. His teaching experience includes courses in circuits, amateur radio, introductory mechanics, technical writing, and engineering design. He has a technical background in fabricating bioelectronic interfaces for biosensing in medical applications. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Zajdel was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University, where he worked on electrical sheep-herding of biological tissues. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University. His passion for teaching emerged during his undergraduate studies when he served as a teaching assistant in Ohio State's first-year engineering program, where he was engaged in curriculum development and teaching projects.

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