- John Milsum
John H. Milsum (1924) is a
Canadian control engineer , who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of theMcGill University in Montreal, and a Professorat theUniversity of British Columbia . Milsum is known for his book "Biological Control Systems Analysis" from 1966, which is a classic in the field and has been translated into many languages. [http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/history.html History of biomedical engineering at McGill] , Retrieved 25 April 2008.]Biography
John Milsum was born in Canada. He received his Pd.D. in 1957 in
control engineering at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology .He dad started working at the National Research Council in
Ottawa from 1950 to 1961. In 1961 he came to McGill as the first Abitibi professor ofcontrol engineering in the Department ofElectrical Engineering . In 1972 Milsum moved to theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC) to become the Imperial Oil professor ofGeneral Systems and a professor in the Department ofHealth Care andEpidemiology . He was instrumental in the creation of UBC's Institute of Health Promotion Research in 1990.He was president of the
International Society for the Systems Sciences in 1967-68. And he was a member of theNational Research Council in Ottawa.Publications
* 1955. "Preliminary investigation of transient cooling of aircraft electronic equipment using heat storage material". with William G. Nance.
* 1957. "Problems in optimizing of stochastically-disturbed, saturating regulators, employing a binary error criterion". Thesis Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
* 1966. "Biological Control Systems Analysis". McGraw Hill ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0070423985
* 1968. "Positive Feedback". (editor) Pergamon Press Ltd.
* 1984. "Health, stress, and illness : a systems approach". New York : Praeger.Articles:
* 1972, "The Hierarchical Basis for Living Systems," inGeorge J. Klir (ed.), "Trends in General Systems Theory". New York. 1972.
* 1973, "On Optimization of Health Care Systems". in: "Optimization Techniques" 1973: 335-346
* 1973, "Hospital admission systems: their evaluation and management". with E. Turban and I. Vertinsky in: "Management Science".
* 1985, "A model of the eustress system for health/illness". in: "Behavioral Science". Vol 30, Issue 4 , Pages 179 - 186.References
External links
* [http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/history.html History of biomedical engineering at McGill]
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