Eric Wade is an experienced academic currently serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor and formerly as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, since July 2013, specializing in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. Prior to this role, Eric Wade worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California from February 2007 to May 2013. Eric Wade completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2004 and 2007 and holds both a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and French from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtained in 2000 and 2004, respectively.