Janice Jenkins
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Janice M. Jenkins (1932–2023) was an American electrical engineer and biomedical engineer. She was the first woman to become a faculty member in the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science working at the school for 22 years first serving as an assistant professor before being promoted to a full professor in 1992.[1] During her time at the University of Michigan she also became the director of the medical computing research laboratory and the digital design laboratory.
Her research concerned electrocardiology and the automated analysis of heart rhythms, which she employed computing techniques and advanced signal processing to make significant contributions to these fields.[2][3]
Jenkins was originally from Flint, Michigan, and grew up in a family of three sisters in Alton, Illinois. She married in 1951[4] and raised a family of five children.[3]She entered college at the same time as her oldest child, at age 37. She studied at the University of Illinois Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in 1974, a master's degree in 1976, and a Ph.D. in 1978.[3] Just before receiving her final degree, her husband died.[4]