John Milsum

John Milsum

John H. Milsum (1924) is a Canadian control engineer, who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a Professorat the University 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 the Massachusetts 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 of control engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1972 Milsum moved to the University of British Columbia (UBC) to become the Imperial Oil professor of General Systems and a professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology. 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 the National 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," in George 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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