Email
mcneill@wpi.edu
Office
Atwater Kent 128a
Phone
+1 (508) 8315567
Affiliated Department or Office
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Education
AB Engineering Sciences Dartmouth College 1983
MS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Rochester 1991
PhD Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Boston University 1994

John A. McNeill was named the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering in June 2021. McNeill joined WPI in 1994 after nearly a decade in industry and served as the interim Dean of Engineering from September 2018 until being appointed Dean.

A senior member of IEEE and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Council for Undergraduate Research, McNeill received a bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College, an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Boston University.

His PhD work was a collaboration with Analog Devices to develop design techniques to reduce noise in integrated oscillators used in telecommunication systems. He continues to maintain close ties to industry as founding director of the New England Center for Analog and Mixed Signal Design, a university-industry collaborative that conducts research on cutting-edge mixed signal (analog + digital) integrated circuits and systems.

McNeill’s research interests include biomedical sensing, jitter (noise) in integrated oscillators, and digitally assisted calibration of analog-to-digital converters used in low-power sensor systems. Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (including a 1997 CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award for young faculty), other federal agencies, and industry, his research has resulted in six patents and over 60 peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations.

In 1999, McNeill received the WPI Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching and he has won the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award three times (in 2000, 2008, and 2013). In 1995 he received the Joseph S. Satin Distinguished Fellowship in Electrical Engineering at WPI. In 2007 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of WPI’s Chairman’s Exemplary Faculty Prize, which honors outstanding faculty members for excellence “in all relevant areas of faculty performance.”

McNeill has served as a research and project advisor to numerous graduate and undergraduate students, often emphasizing design of cutting-edge mixed (analog + digital) integrated circuits and systems.

Email
mcneill@wpi.edu
Affiliated Department or Office
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Education
AB Engineering Sciences Dartmouth College 1983
MS Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Rochester 1991
PhD Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Boston University 1994

John A. McNeill was named the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering in June 2021. McNeill joined WPI in 1994 after nearly a decade in industry and served as the interim Dean of Engineering from September 2018 until being appointed Dean.

A senior member of IEEE and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the National Academy of Inventors, and the Council for Undergraduate Research, McNeill received a bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College, an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Boston University.

His PhD work was a collaboration with Analog Devices to develop design techniques to reduce noise in integrated oscillators used in telecommunication systems. He continues to maintain close ties to industry as founding director of the New England Center for Analog and Mixed Signal Design, a university-industry collaborative that conducts research on cutting-edge mixed signal (analog + digital) integrated circuits and systems.

McNeill’s research interests include biomedical sensing, jitter (noise) in integrated oscillators, and digitally assisted calibration of analog-to-digital converters used in low-power sensor systems. Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (including a 1997 CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award for young faculty), other federal agencies, and industry, his research has resulted in six patents and over 60 peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations.

In 1999, McNeill received the WPI Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching and he has won the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award three times (in 2000, 2008, and 2013). In 1995 he received the Joseph S. Satin Distinguished Fellowship in Electrical Engineering at WPI. In 2007 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of WPI’s Chairman’s Exemplary Faculty Prize, which honors outstanding faculty members for excellence “in all relevant areas of faculty performance.”

McNeill has served as a research and project advisor to numerous graduate and undergraduate students, often emphasizing design of cutting-edge mixed (analog + digital) integrated circuits and systems.

Office
Atwater Kent 128a
Phone
+1 (508) 8315567
Research Interests
wearable biomedical sensors
mixed signal integrated circuit design
analog microelectronics
Professional Affiliations
IEEE Senior Member
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
ASEE
National Academy of Inventors
Council on Undergraduate Research
Professional Highlights & Honors
WPI Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Award, 2007
WPI Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1999
National Science Foundation CAREER award, 1997
WPI Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellowship for Outstanding Young ECE Professor, 1995
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Best Paper Award

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Still Wondering: Where Are the Women Engineers?

John McNeill, the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of the School of Engineering, and Oli Qirko, the North American president of Cambridge Consultants, Inc. and member of the advisory board for the School of Engineering, authored this op-ed regarding ways employers in STEM industries can foster inclusion and build the demand for women scientists and engineers. The piece also explores how project work, like WPI's educational model, serves as a successful example of best practices. The piece was published in PE Magazine, the flagship publication of the National Society of Professional Engineers.