In 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded him its James H. Mulligan Jr. Educational Medal for his career contributions.
Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design is considered the classic textbook in the field.
He last taught Biomedical Engineering 310: Introduction to Bioinstrumentation during spring 2015.
He first proposed the idea of electrical impedance tomography as a medical imaging technique in a publication in 1978.
[3] In his spare time, Webster worked with undergraduate biomedical engineering design teams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including ongoing projects with impedance cardiography and atrial fibrillation.