Dr. Eli Fromm, IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of the American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, died on January 20, 2025. He was a celebrated bioengineering researcher, innovative engineering education reformer, former vice president and vice provost at Drexel University, where he was the Roy A. Brothers engineering professor emeritus.
An expert in physiological measurements and biotelemetry, Dr. Fromm joined Drexel as an assistant professor in 1967 and over the next 50 years provided ground-breaking research on implantable physiological transmitters and sensors and other bioengineering topics.
In 2001, he was awarded the IEEE William E. Sayles II Award for Achievement in Education from the IEEE Education Society. In 2002, he earned the inaugural Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering for “innovation that combines technical, societal, and experiential learning into an integrated undergraduate curriculum.”
