Houston HFES Quarterly Meeting
What: Quarterly Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Houston Chapter
Where: Rice University, Sewell Hall, Room 305
When: March 5, 2010 at 5:30pm
RSVP by Friday, February 26 to hhfes@houstonhfes.org
The first quarterly meeting at Rice University, Sewell Hall, Room 305, featuers Dr. Todd Johnsonfrom the University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences. Dr. Johnson's didactic session will highlight human factors in the medical industry.
5:30 pm: Eat and Meet (menu TBD)
6:00 pm: Dr. Johnson presents Medical Human Factors
Dessert and socializing following Dr. Johnson's presentation
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Panel of Human Factors/ Ergonomics Professionals
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
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