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There are a variety of work opportunities available to Human Factors and Ergonomics students at NC State. Ask professors in your department about Reserach and Teaching Assistantships. Graduate students can also apply to teach courses at NC State during the summer.
Internships and Jobs can be found through this site, the HFES Carolina Chapter Job Forum, the HFES.org Career Center (you have to be a memeber of HFES to use this service), participating in activities with the HFES Student Chapter, and through companies actively recruiting NC State students.
NC State graduate students and alumni have acquired positions in human factors and ergonomics at companies such as:
Below are descriptions of work experiences that Human Factors and Ergonomics students at NC State have had.
| Allison Anderson - Research Assistant, NC State University |
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Allison is a Research Assistant in the ergonomics lab of Dr. Gary Mirka, and is currently working as a trainee for the National Institute for Occupational Safefy and Health (NIOSH). She works mostly on physical ergonomics research in the ergonomics lab, and
recently completed a front load carriage study, which involved collecting muscle activity data and motion data. This research has been submitted to Ergonomics. Soon she'll be working on a NIOSH crab fishing project, trying to find suitable interventions. Allison is also currently working on research for her thesis: A Learning Curve Analysis of Different Types of Ergonomic Keyboards. |
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| Karl Kaufmann - Teaching Assistant, NC State University |
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Karl is currently a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Mershon. He teaches PSY 400, Perception. He has a free hand in teaching the course, using Dr Mershon's coverage, material, and testing/grading policy.
Last summer, Karl had a paid internship with the UNC Hospitals, working for Celeste Mayer, the hospital system's Patient Safety Officer and alum of the Ergo/Ex program. The majority of the work that Karl did was related to testing the suitability of an online incident reporting system. Karl also got some exposure to a wide range of applications of human factors principles in the health care field. |
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| Kenya Freeman Oduor - Software Engineer (User Experience), IBM |
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As a User Experience Engineer with the WebSphere Application Server team, Kenya is responsible for applying user-centered design principles to the development of product (software) components, performing usability tests of WebSphere components utilizing internal/external participants, creating prototypes for development teams of new and/or enhanced GUIs, and representing WebSphere User Experience in various workgroups.
In addition to being a co-op and full-timer with the user experience team at IBM for the past 5 years, Kenya has also held an internship at HCT, and was the lab manager and a research assistant in Dr. Mike Wogalter's Cognitive Ergonomics Lab.
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| Lisa Whitman - Usability Analyst, SAS |
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Lisa is currently working full-time for SAS, the world's largest privately-held software company, as a Usability Analyst. In this position she gets to apply her skills in HCI and human factors by performing usability analysis of SAS software, and designing, documenting, and prototyping SAS software user interfaces. She is involved in customer interviews and usability testing to better understand customer personas and how software user interfaces can be developed for increased usability and accessibilty.
Lisa has also worked as a Teaching Assistant for Dr. Kitty Klein at NC State, teaching the lab portion of Introduction to Behavioral Research I and II. Lisa has also worked as a Graduate Student Intern in User Interface Design for SAS, and as a co-op for Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC company, working on web design and user experience research for Lenovo.com. |
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