Joseph Zinter is the Assistant Director at the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), and a Lecturer and Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, with a secondary research appointment in the Department of Surgery.  Joseph Zinter collaborates with Yale CEA on innovating prototyping strategies for novel research approaches.

He specializes in teaching project-based courses that sit at the intersection of design, technology, and entrepreneurship, which have led to dozens of student first-authored publications and patents, national and international design awards, and several ventures. Prior to joining Yale, he acted as a Design Preceptor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and as a Clinical Specialist in cardiac rhythm management for Medtronic. He holds a BA (Fairfield University) in Engineering, a BS (Columbia University) and MS (Cornell University) in Applied Physics, a MHS (Yale School of Medicine), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Yale University).