Safety Engineering Laboratory

This laboratory houses an array of electronics equipment and sensor-system development instrumentation in a 28 by 14 foot facility. This lab's efforts focus on developing improved designs for agricultural, construction, and industrial equipment. Current research is focused on assessing the safe and efficient operating envelope that equipment operators occupy. This research area focuses on the human factors and design factors of the interface between a truck driver or equipment operator and the operating environment or cab space in which he operates. The Safety Engineering Laboratory is equipped with motion capture Systems, digital measuring devices, foot pressure sensors, dynamic strength simulators, fabricated test bucks for determining the effective volume and space envelope around commercial drivers and equipment operators, and Unix-based workstations for simulations.