Megan Conrad is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy where she leads the Eick Center for Assistive Technology and teaches courses related to Biomedical Engineering and Product Design.

She has earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University and studied hand function and rehabilitation as a Northwestern University postdoc working in the Sensorimotor Performance Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Dr. Conrad’s teaching portfolio bridges the disciplines of engineering, biology, and medicine to implement systems capable of enhancing human function and meeting patient needs. In 2018 Dr. Conrad established the multidisciplinary Biomedical Design minor and since 2017 has co-taught the mechanical engineering assistive technology capstone projects. Through the capstone projects, engineers collaborate with nursing and biology students to build devices capable of enhancing independence for people with disabilities.

  Dr. Conrad's research interests are centered around the assessment of human performance in healthy and disabled populations as it pertains to therapy, work and product design. Specifically, she studies upper extremity function and manual dexterity with the goal of identifying techniques that will allow elderly and disabled individuals to remain independent at home and work. She is currently funded by the FDA, actively collaborating with the Office of Generic Drugs to develop human factors methods ensuring generic drug-device combination products (such as inhalers and injectors) are safe, effective and interchangeable with their original drug counterparts. In addition to FDA funding, she has received extramural funding as PI or co-I on projects supported by the AHA, NIH, and NSF.

Dr. Amir Momenipour, who earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2019, currently is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Management at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) in Terre Haute, Indiana. With three years of professional experience in the manufacturing industry, he has contributed to and led several projects in industrial and systems engineering. As an educator at RHIT, Dr. Momenipour teaches in diverse areas including human factors, user experience research, work analysis and design, management information systems, manufacturing, and facilities planning to both graduate and undergraduate students. His studies focused on human factors, user experience research, and designing for accessibility and learnability in consumer products, web technologies, and educational tools. Additionally, he conducts research in the usability engineering of future work systems technologies.

Dr. Momenipour's studies in engineering education emphasized the integration of the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) in the development of industrial and systems engineering as well as human factors and ergonomics pedagogies. His recent research is on fostering a human-centered design mindset among engineering students through the adoption of EM principles. He is a member of several professional societies including the IISE, HFES, ASEE, and Engineering Unleashed, and has actively contributed to their various initiatives. Currently, he serves on the board of directors for SEMS in IISE. Moreover, he has held positions in two technical groups of the HFES, including the program chair-elect of the Usability and System Evaluation technical group and the secretary of the Engineering Education technical group. Dr. Momenipour also serves as an Engineering Unleashed Ambassador for IISE and HFES, dedicating his efforts to faculty development activities focused on implementing entrepreneurial-minded learning in industrial and systems engineering as well as in human factors and ergonomics education.

Nick is currently a Senior Distinguished Engineer in DELL Technologies’ Experience Design Group.  He joined DELL sixteen years ago from the former General Electric Plastics business where he worked for twelve years.  He first became interested in materials while studying Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology which continued while perusing his MS degree in Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

For the past thirteen + years he has been focused on driving innovation in key areas such as new materials, manufacturing processes and coating technology.  He and his team are now focused on developing strategy and implementing solutions for DELL’s 2030 Progress Made Real sustainability goals focused on the Circular Economy.  He enjoys challenging the status quo while pushing the limits in developing materials and processes which reduce the impact on the environment.

Alyson Freeman leads the environmental sustainability strategy for data center and infrastructure solution products. She identifies new growth areas, initiatives, and emerging opportunities to enhance the sustainability of Dell Technologies products and services, optimizes existing solutions, and defines next generation initiatives.

She has 20 years’ experience in engineering and management roles at NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Samsung, Intel, and Dell Technologies. Her Ph.D. is in electronic materials with a focus on semiconductors.

Freeman is also global lead for the Women in Action employee resource group at Dell Technologies, a co-founder and former chair of Women in Technology at Samsung Austin Semiconductor, a board member of Westwood STEM Academy, and co-founded a global Coding for Kids program at Dell Technologies.

Amrita is a User Interface Engineer at Dell, where she is a Distinguished Member Technical Staff in the Technical Leadership Community (TLC). The TLC represents about 1% of Dell's engineering community. Amrita has been pivotal in transforming user experiences in Data Center Infrastructure Hardware design since 2013 and has co-authored 11 US Patents. Prior to 2013, she drove best-in-class usability in 7 laptops and Dell’s first three rugged laptop offerings.

Before joining Dell in 2011, Amrita spent 11 years at General Motors; seven years as a Platform Lead Ergonomics Engineer, where she focused on the design and integration of ergonomic tools and processes across seven assembly plants in the North America. From 2000 she was the Plant Ergonomist responsible for reducing work-related OSHA injuries/illnesses through ergonomic and safety engineering interventions.

Amrita is the incoming Chair of the HFES Usability Technical Group, Program Chair-Elect of the recently formed HFES Sustainability Technical Group, she also chairs the ISO 159 SC5 Standards Committee (Ergonomics of the Physical Environment), is a HFES 100 standards committee member and volunteers with the HFES BIPOC AG.

Amrita holds a Master of Science in Bioengineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Renaut Mosdale is the CEO of HYNOLOGY, a company started in 2022 to develop and industrially produce electrochemical components for hydrogen/air fuel cells and electrolyzers with a focus on heavy duty mobility markets and hydrogen production.

Renaut has more than 30 years’ experience in hydrogen research and development both at academic and industrial level. After completing a Ph.D. on water management in PEM (Polymer Exchange Membrane) Fuel Cells, he spent 2 years in Dr. Srinivasan’s Electrochemistry laboratory at Texas A&M University, USA. After returning to France, Renaut worked for PSA Peugeot/Citroën (car industry) and for the CEA (French National laboratory). Renaut created his first start-up, PaxiTech, in 2003, which he ran for 15 years and contributed in some other organizations in the hydrogen technology field. His latest company, HYNOLOGY, was launched in May 2022. 

Dr. Mica Endsley is President of SA Technologies and is the former Chief Scientist for the US Air Force. She has also held the positions of Visiting Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University.  Dr. Endsley is a Fellow and Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. Dr. Endsley is a recognized world leader in the design, development and evaluation of systems to support human situation awareness (SA) and decision-making, and the integration of humans and automation. She has authored over 200 scientific articles and is the co-author of Analysis and Measurement of Situation Awareness and Designing for Situation Awareness and recently published Situation awareness measurement: How to measure situation awareness in individuals and teams.

Dr. Lawrence E. Jones is an award winning, thought leader and practitioner with over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. He joined Edison Electric Institute (EEI) in September 2015 and is currently Senior Vice President, International Programs. Under his leadership, EEI’s International Programs membership has grown to more than 70 electric companies with operations in over 91 countries, providing electricity to more than 3 billion people. He has launched several new strategic initiatives including Annual Global Electricity Forum, Africa Utility Power Sector Exchange, Global Executive Leader Network, Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla Impactful Leadership (TENTIL) Dialogue, and the Thomas Edison International Utility Executive Fellowship Program. He founded and is host of Influential Minds – an EEI international conversation series with leading thinkers and practitioners from energy and adjacent industries, finance, governments, etc. Prior to joining EEI, Dr. Jones held leadership roles at Alstom USA including North America Vice President for Utility Innovation and Infrastructure Resilience; and North America Vice President for Policy, Regulatory Affairs & Industry Relations. Before joining Alstom, he consulted with ABB (now Hitachi) in Sweden, and was a visiting scientist at Electricite de France in Clamart, France.

He is a Member of Global Board of the World Resources Institute, and Member of the Advisory Board of Sentient Hubs. He is also Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering at Monash Energy Institute, Monash University; a Senior Associate (non-Resident) with the Energy and Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Senior Fellow at Boston University Institute of Sustainable Energy. He has received several patents for systems that improve situational awareness in energy grid control centers.

He received his MSc, Licentiate and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Rob Walker received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1980. He received his M.A. in anthropology from Kent State University in 1982, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences with a specialty in Biological Anthropology in 1989. Dr. Walker's first professional job was as the Field Supervisor of the U.S. Army's 1988 Anthropometric Survey (ANSUR) at the U.S. Army Natick R,D, and E Center. He then took a postdoctoral position at the Northwestern University College of Medicine, and from there took a teaching position in human gross anatomy at the Northeast College of Health Sciences in Seneca Falls, New York. He held positions of faculty member, head of basic sciences, and Founding Dean of the Clinical Anatomy M.S. program there. Dr. Walker taught anatomy, histology, and biological anthropology at Kent State University, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Northwestern University Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Northeast College of Health Sciences. He retired from active teaching in 2020, but continues to be active in research.

Dr. Bruce Bradtmiller, a physical anthropologist, is Senior Consulting Scientist at Anthrotech. Since joining the firm in 1983 Dr. Bradtmiller has designed, conducted, and directed a number of body size surveys and other anthropometric research projects. He has worked on anthropometric accommodation for an array of products including: respirators, eyewear, helmets, gloves, dress and functional clothing, chemical protective garments, implantable cardiac defibrillators, automotive lumbar supports, infant car seats and breast pumps.

Dr. Laurie Rush has a BA from Indiana University and an MA and PhD from Northwestern. She has been the Army Archaeologist and Native American liaison at Fort Drum for over twenty years. Her research specialty is Native Americans of the Great Lakes, and she is also an internationally recognized authority on protecting cultural heritage. Dr. Rush has represented the Central Command Environmental Program throughout the Middle East and has served as a NATO advisor on cultural property issues. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a University of Pennsylvania Consulting Scholar and a Smithsonian Research Associate.

Bob Fox has 40 years of experience in the field of ergonomics, human factors and physical anthropology. He has worked in General Motors North American and global ergonomics activities from 1993 until May of 2022 and is both an HFES and IEA Fellow. He chairs the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) for anthropometry and biomechanics and participates in various work groups for ANSI and ISO ergonomics standards and reports. He participates on the NORA Cross-Sector Councils for both MSDs and Healthy Work Design, the ACGIH Physical Agents Committee, the IEA Technical Committee on Musculoskeletal Disorders, USCAR and the ASTM F48.02 subcommittee on Human Factors and Ergonomics for exoskeletons. He has authored journal articles on manual material handling, the Revised NIOSH Lift Equation, work-related musculoskeletal disorders and ergonomics and aging.

Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Human Systems Engineering, The Polytechnic School

Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic, Endowed Kern Honored Investigator for Diversity Science

Mark C. Schall, Jr. is the Daniel F. and Josephine Breeden Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, and Injury Prevention in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University. Dr. Schall serves as the program director of the Occupational Safety & Ergonomics (OSE) and Occupational Injury Prevention (OIP) academic training programs in collaboration with the University of Alabama-Birmingham as part of the Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, one of 18 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Education and Research Centers. Dr. Schall’s research focuses on developing direct measurement techniques to enhance objective exposure assessment in ergonomics and applying those techniques to improve working people’s health, safety, and well-being. 

John Rosecrance is Professor of Occupational Ergonomics at Colorado State University. His professional work consists of teaching, conducting research, and consulting in ergonomics. He is also a physical therapist. As part of his professional service, he serves as a BCPE mentor for individuals preparing for their certification in professional ergonomics.

Melissa Afterman is the Director of the Online Ergonomics Certificate Program at the Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, a NIOSH supported Education & Research Center at UC Berkeley. She has 25 years of ergonomics consulting practice and is a senior ergonomist at University of California San Francisco, where she works with the UC Ergonomics Research Lab and Graduate Training Program. Melissa earned her Masters of Science degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics Engineering at San Jose State University and is the co-chair of the HFES Practitioners Committee. 

Michelle Meyer is Director of Continuing Education at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), where she facilitates the development and delivery of health and safety training and symposia. She joined COEH at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 after spending a few years working at tech start-ups in the Bay Area, and working at an environmental non-profit in Syracuse, NY. She received her Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2013.

Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Human Systems Engineering, The Polytechnic School

Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic, Endowed Kern Honored Investigator for Diversity Science

Mark C. Schall, Jr. is the Daniel F. and Josephine Breeden Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, and Injury Prevention in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University. Dr. Schall serves as the program director of the Occupational Safety & Ergonomics (OSE) and Occupational Injury Prevention (OIP) academic training programs in collaboration with the University of Alabama-Birmingham as part of the Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, one of 18 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Education and Research Centers. Dr. Schall’s research focuses on developing direct measurement techniques to enhance objective exposure assessment in ergonomics and applying those techniques to improve working people’s health, safety, and well-being. 

John Rosecrance is Professor of Occupational Ergonomics at Colorado State University. His professional work consists of teaching, conducting research, and consulting in ergonomics. He is also a physical therapist. As part of his professional service, he serves as a BCPE mentor for individuals preparing for their certification in professional ergonomics.

Melissa Afterman is the Director of the Online Ergonomics Certificate Program at the Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, a NIOSH supported Education & Research Center at UC Berkeley. She has 25 years of ergonomics consulting practice and is a senior ergonomist at University of California San Francisco, where she works with the UC Ergonomics Research Lab and Graduate Training Program. Melissa earned her Masters of Science degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics Engineering at San Jose State University and is the co-chair of the HFES Practitioners Committee. 

Michelle Meyer is Director of Continuing Education at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), where she facilitates the development and delivery of health and safety training and symposia. She joined COEH at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 after spending a few years working at tech start-ups in the Bay Area, and working at an environmental non-profit in Syracuse, NY. She received her Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2013.