Background
MANN, Robert was born on October 6, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Wellesley Mann and Helen Rieger Mann.
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MANN, Robert was born on October 6, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Arthur Wellesley Mann and Helen Rieger Mann.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957.
With, Bell Telephone laboratories, New York City, 1942-1943, 46-47;
with, United States Army Signal Corps, 1943-1946;
research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951-1952;
research supervisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952;
member of faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1953;
professor mechanic engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963-1970;
Germeshausen professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1972;
professor engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1974;
Whitaker professor biomedical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-1992;
Whitaker professor emeritus, senior lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1992;
head systems and design division, mechanic engineering department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957-1968, 82-83;
founder, director engineering projects laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959-1962;
founder, chairman steering committee, Center Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development, 1964-1986;
chairman division health science, technical, planning and management, Center Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development, 1972-1974;
founder, director Newman biomechanics and human rehabilitation laboratory, Center Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development, 1975-1992;
director bioengineering programs, Whitaker College Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986-1989;
director, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rehabilitation Engineering Center, 1988-1993. Member Executive Committee Division Health Sciences and Technology Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1985. Professor, since 1979, member Committee on Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984-1993, co-chair Public Svc.
Center, 1988-1992; lecturer engineering Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, 1973-1979. Research associate in orthopedic surgery Children's Hospital Medical Center, since 1973. Consultant in engineering science Massachusetts General Hospital, since 1969.
Consultant in field, since 1953. Member National Commission Engineering Education, 1962-1969. Committee prosthetics research and development National Research Council, 1963-1969.
Chairman sensory aids subcommittee, 1965-1968, committee skeletal system, 1969. Member committee interplay engineering with biology and medicine National Academy Engineering, 1969-1973. Member board health science policy Institute Medicine, 1973-1974, 82-86.
Member commission on national needs for rehabilitation physically handicapped National Academy Sciences, 1975-1976. Member-at-large conferences committee Engineering Foundation, 1975-1981. Chair sensory aids panel science merit review board Rehabilitation, R & D, Department Veterans Affairs, 1983-1995.
Member Commision on Life Sciences National Research Council, 1984-1988, Committee on Strategic Technology for United States Army, National Research Council, 1989-1993. National Research Council Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, 1992-1995.
Member scientific advisory council United Cerebral Palsy Research & Education Foundation, 2006. President, trustee Amanda Caroline Payson Scholarship Fund, 1965—1986. Trustee National Braille Press, 1982—2006, president, 1990—1994.
Trustee Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust, 2002—2006. Board directors Carroll Center Blind, 1967—1974, president, 1968—1974. Member corporation Perkins School Blind, 1970—2000, Mount Auburn Hospital, 1972—2000, member board overseers, 2000—2006.
Member Cardinal's advisory committee on social justice Archdiocese of Boston, 1993—1996. Board overseers St. Marguerite D'Youville Foundation, Youville Lifecare Inc., 1994—1998. Chairman Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc., 2002—2006.
Science advisory council United Cerebral Palsy Research and Education Foundation, 2006. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Institute Medical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (member editorial board Spectrum 1984-1986), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (gold medal 1977, Hassaram Rijhumal Lissner award for biomedical engineering 1977). Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, biomedical Engineering Society (board directors 1981-1984), Orthopaedics Research Society, Rehabilitation Society North America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (president 1983-1984, Alumni Fund Board 1978-1980, board directors 1980-1986, 93-95, corporation joint advisory committee 1983-1984, chair national selector committee 1985-1988, awards committee 1992-1994, chairman 1994, board Technology Review 1986-1995, chairman 1993-1995), Sigma Xi (national lecturer 1979-1981), Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi.
Married Margaret Ida Florencourt, September 4, 1950 (deceased 2002). Children: Robert Wellesley, Catherine Louise.