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human factors

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Industrial engineering receives funding to revolutionize PA manufacturing

Pictured left to right, Matt Krause, Julie Lauris, Laila Abdirahman, Inihya Vaughn and Samira Babiker cheer on the unicorn ice cream truck during the 13th annual PLASTCar competition, held Dec. 11 at Penn State Behrend.

Unicorn ice cream truck highlights vehicle field at PLASTCar competition

Andris Freivalds next to the LG G6

Ergonomist serves as research consultant on newest LG smartphone

Zuber playing the trumpet with the Blue Band during a home football game at Beaver Stadium

Balancing act

Christine Toh

Industrial engineering doctoral student appointed to tenure-track position

A blueberry harvester hand-picking berries in the filed

Engineers working on a better blueberry picker

Ling Rothrock

Engineering professor named editor of human factors and ergonomics journal

Ling Rothrock prepares the eye tracker for assessing a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram with Jingwen Li, a graduate student in industrial engineering.

Rothrock receives research funding from Abnormal Situation Management Consortium

Team members work on a project around a table.

New study explores how personalities affect communication, teamwork

Ling Rothrock helps a student design team initialize the eye-tracking software that tests the effectiveness of the students' game

Engineering students use gaming techniques to develop new learning apps

woman pointing to poster and spending time with fellow graduate students

Meet Monifa Vaughn-Cooke