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January 2019 Meeting

Posted: Feb 08, 2019

November 2018 Meeting

Posted: Nov 19, 2018

The Texas A&M ErgoCenter – What’s Happening?!  Recent Past, Current, and Future Opportunities

Martha Parker, M.S., CPE is an ergonomist and project manager with the Texas A&M ErgoCenter in College Station, TX.  She contributes to and manages multiple consulting projects, continuing education classes, and research projects within the ErgoCenter.  Formerly with m-erg, an ergonomic consulting firm based in Houston, TX, Martha was president and founder.  Her m-erg team technically supported customers by offering ergonomic assistance in design, redesign, and retrofit of new and existing office and industrial workspaces.  m-erg also provided ergonomic training through seminars and individual workstation evaluations.  Previously, Martha worked for Neutral Posture, Inc. as an ergonomist and was a founding member of the Neutral Posture Ergonomic Engineering Team (NEET).  Prior to that, she worked for ALCOA, Tennessee Operations as the smelting safety engineer and for Texas A&M University as a graduate research assistant.  She earned her M.S. degree in Safety Engineering with an Ergonomic Specialty from Texas A&M in May 1997. Her graduate thesis is entitled “An Investigation of the Transportation Methods of Laptop Computers”.  She acquired a B.S. in Bioengineering with an Industrial Engineering Specialty from Texas A&M in December 1995.  She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).  She is registered with the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics as a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE).

September 2018 Meeting

Posted: Oct 11, 2018