About Jorge A. Ochoa, PhD., PE

BSME 1985, Missouri S&T
MSME 1987, Purdue
PhDME 1991, Purdue
Professional ME 2005, UMR
OGS Member

Dr. Ochoa is currently Principal Engineer for the Biomedical Engineering practice at Exponent, Inc., a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm providing solutions to complex technical problems. Before becoming a consultant, Dr. Ochoa was Vice President for Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer of Archus Orthopedics, Inc., a privately held development stage medical device company designing and developing novel surgical motion restoration devices for patients suffering from degenerative spine disease. Before that, Dr. Ochoa was Vice President, Research and Development, at DePuy Orthopaedics, a Johnson & Johnson Company where he was responsible for R&D in the joint reconstruction business. His work experience also includes IBM and Chrysler Corporations. He has co-authored over 100 peer refereed journal articles and conference abstracts and has 13 US patents to his name. He is a member of the SHPE, , ASME, ORS, NASS, ASTM, AAMI, and ASM. He also serves on advisory boards for various professional engineering societies and engineering schools. Jorge was raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, where his father was a physician, which along with being an oft-injured athlete, instilled in Jorge an awe of the ultimate machine - the human body. His mother's side of the family is also from Mexico - Missouri, so it is only logical that he became a Miner, since he comes from a long line of MSM-UMR graduates and supporters. He has served the MSM-UMR Alumni Association as Director-at-Large having lived all across the USA, and the IAB for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and has also sponsored research projects in Mechanical Engineering related to biomedical technology.