Janet Ronsky
Canadian biomechanical engineer
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Janet Lenore Ronsky is a Canadian biomechanical engineer whose research concerns the mechanics and neurological control of the human musculoskeletal system, and the effects of age, gender, and disease on this system. She is a professor emerita at the University of Calgary,[1] in its Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, a member of the university's McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, and an affiliate faculty member in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Department of Surgery.[2]
Education and career
Ronsky majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Waterloo, graduating in 1983.[2] She was a master's student at Calgary in 1989 when the École Polytechnique massacre of Canadian female engineering students happened; the incident hardened her resolve to stay in academia.[3] She completed a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary in 1994.[2] Her dissertation, In-vivo quantification of patellofemoral joint contact characteristics, was supervised by Benno Nigg.[4]
She continued at the University of Calgary as a faculty member,[5] and was promoted to full professor in 2003.[6] She was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering in 2001, renewed in 2006, and subsequently held the Alberta Innovates iCORE Strategic Chair in Advanced Diagnostics and Devices.[7] In 2003 she became the founding director of the Centre for Bioengineering Research and Education, and she subsequently served as executive director of the Biovantage Alberta Ingenuity Centre,[5] established in 2009.[8]
Recognition
In 2004 Ronsky received the Award for the Support of Women in the Engineering Profession of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers.[9]
She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering,[7] elected in 2009.[10]