Pratt School of Engineering

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Gary A Ybarra

Dr. Gary Ybarra received his B.S.E.E in 1982, M.S.E.E in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1992 all from North Carolina State University. He joined the ECE Department at Duke in 1993.

Contact Information:
Education:
PhDNC State University1992
MSNC State University1986
BSNC State University1983
Specialties:

Education, Engineering
K-12 Education in Science & Mathematics
Medical Imaging

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, Duke University, School of Engineering, 2002
  • Educator of the Year, IEEE, Southeastern NC Section, 2002
  • K-2 Division Chair's Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 2005

Courses Taught:
  • ECE 27L - FUND OF ELEC & COMP ENGR (Synopsis)
  • ECE 27L9 - FUND OF ELEC & COMP ENG (Synopsis)

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
  1. K. H. Lim and G. Shi and K. Mccarter and R. George and G. Ybarra and W. T. Joines and S. Wartenberg and C. H. Liu, 2d eit for biomedical imaging: Design, measurement, simulation, and image reconstruction, Microwave And Optical Technology Letters, vol 49 no. 12 (2007), pp. 2989 -- 2998 [abs]
  2. Ye, Gang and Lim, Kim H. and George, Rhett and Ybarra, Gary and Joines, William T. and Liu, Qing H., A 3D EIT system for breast cancer imaging, 2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings, vol 2006 (2006), pp. 1092 - 1095 [abs]
  3. Collins, Leslie M. and Huettel, Lisa G. and Brown, April S. and Ybarra, Gary A. and Holmes, Joseph S. and Board, John A. and Cummer, Steven A. and Gustafson, Michael R. and Kim, Jungsang and Massoud, Hisham Z., Theme-based redesign of the duke university ECE curriculum: The first steps, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (2005), pp. 14313 - 14326 [abs]
  4. Klenk, Paul A. and Ybarra, Gary A. and Kelly, Glenda T., K-12 engineering outreach impact on university teaching fellows, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (2005), pp. 9249 - 9257 [abs]
  5. Kelly, Glenda T. and Hebrank, Mary and Ybarra, Gary A. and Klenk, Paul A., Teaching K-12 engineering using inquiry-based instruction, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (2005), pp. 13901 - 13909 [abs]