Along with that responsibility, Nagle is an NC State professor of electrical and computer engineering, director of the Biomedical Microsensors Laboratory, and research professor of biomedical engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Nagle is widely published in data acquisition and signal processing and is a co-author of textbooks in digital logic design and sampled-data-control systems. Over the last several years, he has developed an electronic nose prototype and experimented with its use in food processing, environmental monitoring, and medical diagnostics.

Dr. Nagle received his bachelor’s of science and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama in 1964 and 1966, his doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University in 1968, and a medical doctorate degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1981. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Omicron Delta Kappa.