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• Sesek, R., Davis, G., “Engaging OSH Students in Active Learning,” American Society of Safety Engineers Conference, Chicago, IL, June 13, 2011.

• Blackwell, T., Thomas, R., Pearce, A., Snider, A., Sesek, R., Gibson, S., “A Case Study of Proposed Enhancements to the AIHA Toolkit”, AIHce2011, Portland, OR, May, 2011.

• Sesek, R, “Visualizing Innovative Uses of Technology and Devices for Engaging College Students in Active Learning: Effective Use of Props for Introducing and Reinforcing HF Topics”, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Conference, September 30, 2010.

• Sesek, R. “Productivity and Human Factors are not Mutually Exclusive: How to have your cake and eat it too!” Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference (65^th Annual) and NIOSH ERC Regional Seminar and Research to Practice (R2P) Symposium (22^nd Annual), August 17, 2010.

• Sesek, R., Davis, G. Park, W., “America’s Changing Workforce: Anything but Lean”, Emerging Issues in Occupational Health and Safety, Destin Florida, June 23, 2010.

• Sesek, R, Tang, R, Foreman, K, Paulson, R, “Estimating Low Back Pain Risk Using Disc Pressure.” IERC, Cancun, Mexico, June 8, 2010.

• Tang, R., Sesek, R., Poulsen, R., “Modifying Risk Estimates for Low Back Pain Based on Disc Pressure,” 8th Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Young/New Investigators Symposium, Salt Lake City, April 15, 2010.

• Sesek, R, Davis, G, “How Ergo/Safety Practitioners determine which Portions of Tasks are Limiting or Potentially Injurious.”  Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association Meeting. Opelika, AL, 2/18/2010.

• Sesek, R., Davis, G., “Rules of Thumb and Safety Truisms,” American Society of Safety Engineers Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 17, 2010.

• Gandhi*, M., Sesek, R., Tuckett, R., Bamberg, S., “Progress in Vibrotactile Threshold Evaluation Techniques: A Review,” Journal of Hand Therapy (IF .612), March, 2011.

• Howard*, B., Sesek, R., Bloswick, D., “Typical whole body vibration exposure magnitudes encountered in the open pit mining industry,” Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation (IF 2-yr 0.604), Vol. 34, No. 3, 2009.

• Gandhi*,M., Redd, C., Tuckett, R., Sesek, R., Bamberg, S. "Use of Provocative Wrist Flexion Test and a Self-reported Pain and Discomfort Survey Form for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Screening at Workplace," Muscle and Nerve (submitted Sept. 2011)

• Gandhi*, M., Redd, C., Tuckett, R., Sesek, R., Bamberg, S. "A Novel Device to Evaluate the Vibrotactile Threshold," Journal of Medical Devices (submitted Mar. 2011).

• Sesek, R., Bernard, T., Drinkaus, P., Bloswick, D., “Job Risk Factors Associated with Distal Upper Extremity Symptoms and First Time Office Visits at Six Automotive Assembly Plants,” JOEM, in process.

• Drinkaus, P., Sesek, R., Bloswick, D., Walton, R., Schwartz, S., Bernard, T., “Agreement between Symptoms, Physical Findings and First Time Office Visits for MSDs,” JOEM, in process.

• Piper, AK*, Boelhouwer, EJ* & GA Davis (2010). “Converging International Safety Symbol Designs Using Distributed Interactive Evolutionary Computation.” Proceedings of the 2010 Industrial Engineering Research Conference.

• Sesek, R & GA Davis (2010). “Rules of Thumb and Safety truisms.” Proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers Annual Meeting, (6/10).

• Piper, AK*, Boelhouwer, EJ* & GA Davis (2009). “The Use of Hazard and Precautionary Symbols on Safety Data Sheets.” Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), 53^rd Annual Meeting, (10/09).

• Kady, R, Gywnne, S & GA Davis (2009). “A Review of the Sources of Occupant Performance Data Used in Building Evacuation Models.” Proceedings of the Human Behaviour in Fires Conference, (July 2009).

• Piper, AK*, GA Davis & EJ*. Boelhouwer (2009). “Towards the Determination of a Difficulty Factor for Converting Warning Referents into Wordless Safety Symbols.” 7^th Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Young/New Investigators Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT.

• Piper, AK*, Boelhouwer, EJ*, GA Davis, Holman, GT* & LS Montgomery* (2008). “Using Hand Drawn Images to Determine Warning Symbol Design Parameters within Interactive Evolutionary Computation Software.” Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), 52^nd Annual Meeting, 1708-1712.

• Valenzuela, J., GA Davis & L. Sims (2008).  “Undergraduate Research in Automotive Manufacturing Systems at Auburn University.” Proceedings of the ICEE 2008 Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

• Piper, AK*, Montgomery, L* & GA Davis (2008).  “Using Artificial Intelligence to Assist Individuals and Focus Groups in Designing Safety Warning Symbols.” Proceedings of the IERC (08).

• Gywnne, S, Muhdi, R* & GA Davis (2007). “The Development and Validation of A Crawling Model in an Existing Computational Egress Tool.” Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Fire Science and Technology (Interflam 2007).

• Muhdi, R* & GA Davis (2007). “Helping Safety Managers Make Project Decisions in the Workplace: The Weighted Scoring Decision Making Approach.” Proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers Annual Meeting, (6/07).

• Piper, AK* & GA Davis (2011). “The Ease of Conversion from Written Referent to Graphical Symbol: Testing Warning Symbol Design Method Robustness.” Submitted to Safety Science, (5/11).

•  R Kady* & GA Davis (2009). “The Impact of Exit Route Designs on Evacuation Time for Crawling Occupants.” Journal of Fire Sciences, 27(2009), 481-493. [IF 0.86, 5-Yr IF 1.115; 2009]

• R Muhdi* & GA Davis (2009). “The Effect of Occupant Characteristics on Crawling Speed in Evacuation.”  Fire Safety Journal, 44(2009), 451-457. [IF 1.259, 5-Yr IF 1.384; 2009]

• R Muhdi*, S Gwynne & GA Davis (2009). “The Incorporation and Validation of Empirical Crawling Data into the buildingEXODUS Model.” Safety Science, 47(2009), 97-104. [IF 1.220, 5-Yr IF 1.426; 2009]

• LR Wade* & GA Davis (2009). “Postural Sway Following Increased Duration to an Inclined Surface.” Safety Science, 47(2009), 652-658. [IF 1.220, 5-Yr IF 1.426; 2009]

• GT Holman*, GA Davis & S Maghsoodloo (2008). “The Effects of Dynamic Movement on Reach Arcs.” Ergonomics, 51(5), 691-701. [IF 1.416, 5-Yr IF 1.799; 2009]

• S Walker, GA Davis & D. Desai* (2008). “Postural Assessments & Job Rotation.” Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers, 53(2), 32-36.

• Blackwell, T., Sesek, R., Gungor, C., Thomas, R., and Gibson, S. “A Case Study with the Revised AIHA Ergonomic Toolkit” AIHce 2012: The American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo 2012, Indianapolis, IN, June 16 – 21, 2012.

• Gungor C., “Causes of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the US Furniture Manufacturing Industry” American Society of Safety Engineers’ Safety 2011 Professional Development Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 12 - 15, 2011 (poster presentation)

• Gungor, C., “Company Size and Human Factors and Ergonomics Awareness” Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54^th Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, September 27 - October 1, 2010.

• Gungor C. and Hunter S.L., “Managers’ Opinions and Responsibilities on Human Factors and Ergonomics”, 8^th Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Young/New Investigators Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, April 15 - 16, 2010.

• Gungor C., Ucuncu K., Aydin A., and Tasdemir T.,“Evaluation of Problems of Security Personnel Working on Shift Systems at CAYKUR (Rize) Facilities” 12th National Ergonomics Congress, 16 - 18 November 2006, Gazi University - Ankara, Turkey (Proceedings of the Twelfth National Ergonomics Congress p:219-24, (in Turkish), Gazi University Press, ISBN: 975-507-149-0, Ankara, Turkey, 2006)

• Prediction of Erector Spinae Muscle Lever Arm Distance for Biomechanical Models: A Regression Model

• Modifying Risk Estimates for Low Back Pain based on Disc Pressure. NIOSH Pilot Projects Research Training (PPRT) Program, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, NIOSH

• Morphological Analysis of The Musculoskeletal Structures of The Lumbar Spine, NIOSH Pilot Projects Research Training (PPRT) Program, Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, NIOSH

• Identifying Relevant Symbol Design Criteria Using IEC
  • GECCO Conference

• Tactile Display Landing Safety and Precision Improvements for the Space Shuttle
  • AsMA Conference

• Postural Stability of Commercial Truck Drivers
  • Auburn University

• Applying the Social Force Model in Evacuation Modeling
  • The 4th Annual IIE Doctoral Student Colloquium at the IIE Annual Conference

• An Overview of Evacuation Modeling
  • Deep South Center Occupational Health and Safety: Annual Research Symposium

• Sensitivity Analysis of Subjective Ergonomic Assessment Tools
  • Lucien Brouha Symposium
  • Applied Ergonomics Conference

• Patient Handling: Conditions and Restrictions
  • ASSE Conference

• Decision Factors in Patient Handling
  • Rocky Mountain ERC Research Conference

• Occupant Characteristics in Performance-based Evacuation Modeling
  • HFES Conference

• Evacuation Planning via Evolutionary Computation
  • Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

• Evacuation Modeling: Development, Characteristics, and Limitations
  • Rocky Mountain ERC Research Conference

• The Application of Evolutionary Computation in Evacuation Planning
  • Proceedings of the 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 

• Safety Faculty Support for Student Contest Projects
  • ASSE Conference

• Behavior Based Safety - An Integrated Model
  • ASSE Conference
• Errors in Medical Events - From Research to Practice
  • Deep South Center Occupational Medicine Update Destin, FL.

• Efficiency Studies in Municipal Government: Police, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Global Information Services (GIS), Sewer Repair, Police Dispatch

• Telepharmacy and Impacts on Pharmacist Utilization

• Developing Safety Symbols for the Workplace Through Interactive Evolutionary Design
  • AIHce Conference
• Statistical Process Control Chart for Monitoring of Lung Function in Occupational Asthma
  • AIHce Conference