Previous Events
At the beginning of every semester, we start the semester with a big social event to welcome back our members and introduce our chapter and the HFE group to potential members.
We also announced our Bad Design Contest Awards for Fall 2023.
We have invited our alumni, Obinna Ugwu and Dr. Chihab Nadri, to join us to share their advice on career paths in industry and in academia.
- Obinna Ugwu is currently a User Experience (UX) Researcher at Meta and earned his MEng in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2023.
- Dr. Chihab Nadri is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University and earned his PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2023.
In a collaborations with Women in ISE (WISE), a student organization, we hosted DR. Bruce Walker from Georgia Tech to give us an overview of the interdisciplinary Sonification Lab he is running and present the lab’s projects and longterm programs.
We have invited Katie Woods, the head of Marketing and Client Outreach of toXcel, Inc., to introduce the company and their Human Factors Division. Katie elaborated on the company’s plans on how they intend to expand the HF division and what are the open positions that our recent graduates can take advantage of.
We invited our alum, Dr. Hyungil Kim from University of Illinois, Chicago for an in-person visit. During the visit, current and active projects within the HFE group in VT ISE were presented to him. He, also, presented the ongoing projects he is involved with in his lab.
During a professional event, Dr. Miguel Perez, the ambassador for Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) provided and overview on the certification itself, certifying process, and its benefits in both academia and industry.
This interactive seminar emphasized on the pressing needs for making a safer world in the face of various hazards such as disasters, advanced AI, and medical incidents. Dr. Son elaborated on “Disaster Ergonomics” and how human factors comes into play in disaster management.
In a joint collaboration with ISE department and INFORMS student chapter at VT, we threw a poster competition session, where graduate students from different research groups presented their ongoing projects. Human Factors presented five posters.
