What: Panel of Human Factors/Ergonomics Professionals
Where: Breakthrough Performance Center at Schlumberger Directions & Map
When: October 14, 2009 at 6:00pm
To recognize HFES' National Ergonomics Month, the Houston Chapter of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society will feature a panel of human factors professionals from the Houston area. Professionals and students will have a chance to meet the panel of working professionals from the greater Houston area and hear how they apply their knowledge of and skills in Human Factors to computing, medical, oil and gas, aerospace, and software usability.
Panelists:
Melissa Meingast, Hewlett Packard—Computing
Todd Johnson, University of Texas Health Science Center—Medical
Martin Robb, Atkins Global—Oil and Gas
Sherry Thaxton, Lockheed Martin—Aerospace
Sam McLellan, Schlumberger – Software Usability
Pizza and salad will be served at the event.
Please RSVP’s to Andrew Muddimer <Andrew.Muddimer@slb.com>
We are a growing group of academic and industry professionals practicing in and around Houston, Texas.
Our goals are to promote the growth and understanding of human factors and ergonomics in the local community, which includes the general public, local businesses, and other professional organizations in the greater Houston region, and to provide a setting for human factors/ergonomics professionals to share information and network with others in the field.
Practitioners, students, and academicians with interests in human factors, ergonomics, or related areas are encouraged to join the chapter and participate in its activities.
As our flagship event, we host a one-day conference in the spring of each year. The conferences are designed to provide time for people to share ideas in a variety of formats and to socialize with other ergonomic and human factors professionals. More information on the previous year’s conferences, visit the conference web site.
1. Growth - Grow the size and diversity of our membership, build a dues paying base of committed members, understand that we all have similar needs and endeavor to meet those needs.
2. Outreach - Communicate with the world around us about the need for Human Factors and Ergonomics, build relationships with other local professional societies and local universities
3. Education - Provide a method to exchange ideas, keep up to date with current research, innovations and standards.
1. Annual Conference and Business meeting - a vital part of the chapters year, a full day of focus on the chapter.
2. Regular meetings - a few hours spent together at least 3 times a year, in a varied location, with a varied topic.
3. Facilitate communications - provide a mechanism for members to exchange information and ideas, currently the internet is our chosen solution to this.
A one-day symposium held on April 24, 2009, at the University of Houston, Architecture Building.
See Slides from the Presentations
Eduardo Salas, Presented:
The Long Voyage to Mars: Can the Science of Team Performance Contribute?
Sponsored jointly by Houston HFES and Houston Area I/O Psychologists (HAIOP)
Social Hour 6:30 – 7:00 pm
Speaker 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Universities Space Research Association’s (USRA) Auditorium
3600 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX 77058
<Click here for slides from the presentation>
National Ergonomics Month -
Panel of Human Factors/Ergonomics Professionals
October 27, 2008 at 7pm Rice University, Humanities Building room 117 (click here for a map <pdf>)
Dinner will be served, so please RSVP by October 20th to
To recognize HFES' National Ergonomics Month, the Houston Chapter of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (H-HFES) joins with the University of Houston, University of Houston-Clear Lake, and Rice University to feature a panel of Human Factors Professionals from the Houston area. Students (and other professionals) will have a chance to meet working professionals from the greater Houston area and hear how the apply their knowledge of and skills in Human Factors to aerospace, medicine, computing, communications, and more. Students may even learn of internship opportunities there.
Our panelists are from 6 different industries and include
Aerospace: Jurine A. Adolf
Medicine: Yared Akalou
Communications/Academia: Philip Kortum
Military: Adrian O Salinas
Computing: Eric Nordquist
Oil and Gas: Ben Woodcock