Education
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Queen"s University, 1953
Master of Science , Electrical Engineering, Queen"s University, 1961
Doctor of Philosophy, Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, 1967.
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Queen"s University, 1953
Master of Science , Electrical Engineering, Queen"s University, 1961
Doctor of Philosophy, Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, 1967.
Before becoming an academic he served as an electrical officer with the Royal Canadian Navy on HMCS Nootka from 1952 to 1958. In December 2011, ISB named an award to encourage young people to stay involved in biomechanics research the "David Winter Young Investigator Award." Winter is notable for introducing many important methods and concepts to the study of human locomotion and balance, such as automated television motion capture, lowpass digital filtering of marker trajectories, measurement of instantaneous segmental energy, and the powers produced by joint moments of force, and the analysis of electromyograms by ensemble averaging. 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 when he retired in 1995 was given the title of distinguished professor emeritus. Additional awards.
1990, Career Investigators Award, Canadian Society for Biomechanics 1995, Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture, 15th Congress International Society of Biomechanics 1996, Geoffrey Dyson Lecturer, International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, Madeira, June 25 2001, Lifetime Achievement Award, The Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society 2001, Muybridge Medal, The International Society of Biomechanics 1966–1968, Canada Council Fellow in Engineering, Medicine & Science 1970–1974, President, Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society 1973, Listed in American Men and Women of Science 1997, Fellow of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers 2002, Fellow of Canadian Society for Biomechanics.
