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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (10973)	3/28/2007 2:56:06 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

"Perhaps because your background is not in engineering, you find numbers convincing when they come out of a model." Golly gee, that may be my problem. No applied science, just the basic ones..chem, organic chem, biochem, pharm, biol/zool/physiol, physics. My grad advisor was an MD/PhD.One of the first to use control systems theory in physiology. I used it for teaching respiratory pathophysiology. Control Theory and Biological Systems by Fred S. Grodins. 205 pgs. Read the complete book Control Theory and Biological Systems by becoming a questia.com member. Choose a membership plan to an academic-level library with more than 67,000 full-text books, 1.5 million articles, an entire reference set with a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus plus a collection of digital tools to organize your information. publication details Contributors: Fred S. Grodins Publisher: unknown Place of Publication: New York Publication Year: 1963 Subjects: Control Theory, Biological Control Systems Table of contents PREFACE v 1. SYSTEMS IN GENERAL 1 2. INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 5 3. MATHEMATICAL MACHINERY FOR LINEAR, LUMPEDCONSTANT PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 27 4. TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 45 5. FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS 66 6. INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS 100 7. THE RESPIRATORY CHEMOSTAT 102 8. THE CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATOR 143 9. IN RETROSPECT AND IN PROSPECT 196 INDEX 201 questia.com =============== APS NEWS Fred S. Grodins (19154989) Fred S. Grodins was born in Chicago and received his BS, MS, MD, and PhD (physiology) degrees from North- western University in 1937, 1940, 1942, and 1944, respectively. After service in the US Army Air Force from 1944 to 1946, he spent a year at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chi- cago before returning to Northwestern University Medical School as an associ- ate professor of physiology. From 1951 to 1967, Dr. Grodins was Abbott Pro- fessor of Physiology at Northwestern University. He came to the University of Southern California in 1967 as pro- fessor of physiology and electrical en- gineering. Under Dr. Grodins’ leader- ship, the School of Engineering at USC established in 1970 the Biomedical En- gineering Program. Dr. Grodins served as professor and chairman of Biomed- ical Engineering from 1970 to 1986. During his tenure as chairman, Dr. Grodins established the Biomedical Engineering Department as one of the top biomedical engineering programs in the United States. From 1986 until his death he was emeritus professor of biomedical engineering, electrical en- gineering, and physiology and bio- physics at USC. Dr. Grodins was an acknowledged pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering and made profound and lasting contributions in the area of regulation of breathing. His famous monograph on “Control Theory and Biological Systems” published in 1963 is considered a landmark publication on the application of engineering con- trol theory to physiological systems. Dr. Grodins published over 100 scien- tific articles and book chapters in respiratory physiology, cardiovascular control, mathematical modeling, and computer simulation. Through his career-long active research program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Grodins was responsible for training numerous graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows. Dr. Grodins served on many govern- mental panels and advisory committees for the NIH, NSF, and NASA, and was on the editorial boards of the Ameri- can Journal of Physiology, the Journal of Applied Physiology, Circulation Re- search, and Physiological Reviews. A past president and member of the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Dr. Grodins was also a member of the American Phys- iological Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science. In Dr. Grodin’s memory, a memorial fund is being established to support graduate study in biomedical engineer- ing. Contributions may be made to the USC Fred S. Grodins Memorial Fund through the Office of the Dean, USC School of Engineering, OHE 200, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213-743-4612). 209.85.165.104