Seeking Students for Transportation Safety/Human Factors Projects
The Human Performance Laboratory (HPL) within the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is seeking undergraduate student researchers. The HPL conducts research in the intersection of Human Factors and transportation safety. More specifically, we are interested in reducing traffic injuries and fatalities by understanding how drivers interact with driving technology and infrastructure to guide the design of driver-vehicle interactions.
We are looking for 2 undergraduate students to start in Fall 2025 who will focus on one of three projects: (1) reducing teen driver traffic fatalities and improving teen driver performance through training; (2) investigating, examining, and improving upon the human-computer interaction between truck drivers and their automated commercial motor vehicle; and (3) understanding patterns of cell phone usage while driving along with mitigation techniques.
Students will learn valuable skills that can be added to their resume, including, but not limited to: data collection, data analysis, data visualization, software/coding, and academic/technical writing.