MET Student, Lukas Peterson Receives 'Student of the Year Award' at Ergonomics Conference
Lukas Peterson Recognized with 'The Student of the Year Award' at the 28th Applied Ergonomics Conference.
Manufacturing Engineering Technology student, Lukas Peterson was honored with The Student of the Year Award at the 28th Applied Ergonomics Conference in Orlando, FL. As one of the three largest ergonomics conferences worldwide, the Applied Ergonomics Conference (https://www.iise.org/aec/) highlights real-world ergonomic challenges and solutions.
Notably, Lukas presented alongside graduate students, most of whom were Ph.D. candidates. The other three award recipients hailed from R1 institutions: the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Alberta; and Arizona State University.
Lukas’s award-winning work originated as a class project in MET 423: Ergonomics and Work Measurement (Spring 2024). His process included:
- Identifying a compelling ergonomic problem from his workplace,
- Developing a solution using ergonomic methodologies,
- Compiling findings into an abstract (attached) and later a poster (attached), which underwent blind peer review, and
- Delivering an oral poster presentation before a judging panel at the conference.
