Biomechanics and motor control of human movement / David A. Winter, 1990
Information trouvée : En poste à l'université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (en 1990)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Winter, 2012-04-03
Information trouvée : June 16, 1930, Windsor, Ontario, Canada - February 6, 2012 (aged 81) Guelph, Ontario.
David A. Winter (PhD, PEng) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University
of Waterloo. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics and
its first Career Award winner. He was later awarded the Muybridge Medal of the International
Society of Biomechanics (ISB) and the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Gait and Clinical
Movement Analysis Society. Before becoming an academic he served as an Electrical
Officer with the Royal Canadian Navy on the HMCS Nootka from 1952–58. Winter started
his academic career in 1961 as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at
the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He then took up a similar position
at the Technical University of Nova Scotia where was eventually promoted to Professor
in 1969. In 1969, he became Director of Biomedical Engineering at the Shriner's Hospital
in Winnipeg with an Associate Professorship in Surgery at the University of Manitoba
and an Adjunct Professorship in Electrical Engineering. He was then hired as Associate
Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in 1974.
He was promoted to Professor in 1976 and retired in 1995.