Background
Reswick, James Bigelow was born on April 16, 1922 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Maurice and Katherine (Parker) Reswick.
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Reswick, James Bigelow was born on April 16, 1922 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Maurice and Katherine (Parker) Reswick.
SBME, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1943. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948. Doctor of Science Institute of Technology, 1952.
Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1968.
Assistant professor, then associate professor, head machine design and graphics division Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948-1959. Leonard Case professor engineering, director Engineering Design Center, Case Western Reserve University, 1959-1970. Professor biomedical engineering and orthopaedics University Southern California, also director of research department orthopaedics, 1970-1980.
Associate director technical National Institute Handicapped Research, United States Department Education. Director VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Evaluation Unit Veterans Administration Medical Center, Washington, 1984-1988. Director research science National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research United States Department Education, 1989—1994.
Retired, 1994; acting director National Institute Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Washington, 1989-1991. Engineering consultant on automatic control, product development, automation and bio-medical engineering Member committee prosthetics Research and Development National Academy of Sciences, since 1962. Chairman design and development committee.
Member board review Army Research and Development Office, since 1965. Member applied physiology and biomedical engineering study section National Institutes of Health, since 1972.
Author: (with C.K. Taft) Introduction to Dynamic Systems, 1967. Also articles. Editor: (with F.T. Hambrecht) Functional Electrical Stimulation, 1977.Series on engineering design, since 1963. Inventor, patentee in field.
Chairman Mayor's Commission for Urban Transportation, Cleveland, 1969. Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, PTO. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute Medical and Biological Engineering (founder). Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honor award for best paper 1956, senior member), American Society Engineering Education, Instrument Society of America, biomedical Engineering Society (senior member, president 1973, director), American Academy Orthopedic Surgeons (associate), Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, International Society Orthotics and Prosthetics, Orthopaedics Research Society, Rehabilitation Engineering Society North America (founding president), Sigma XI.
Inventing (invented “Res-a-Tran" automatic wheelchair transmission).
Children: James Bigelow, David Parker (deceased), Pamela Reswick. Married Irmtraud Orthlies Hoelzerkopf, December, 27, 1973.