James C. Squire, P.E., Ph.D.

Jim Squire is the Jamison-Payne professor at the Virginia Military Institute with interests in engineering pedagogy (theory of teaching), instrumentation, patent law, and biomedical engineering. He graduated from West Point in 1989 and was awarded a Bronze Star while serving in the Persian Gulf Conflict as a military intelligence officer. He completed his doctorate at MIT where he taught, consulted in patent litigation and engineering, and performed biomedical engineering research. He joined the VMI ECE faculty in 2000 and received their Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He is the first professor in Virgina to be selected twice by the State Council of Higher Eduction for their Outstanding Faculty Award; once in 2004 (Rising Star category) and again in 2025. In 2008 he joined the VMI Class of 2009 as their Honorary Brother Rat. He teaches freshmen through senior-level courses in circuits, programming, and signal processing, supervises various independent research and honors projects, and his research has led to 8 patents with another pending. He is co-founder of three high-technology startups, MATTS LLC, Tick Rover LLC, and VMIne LLC.