| This quantitative study explored how the members of the student chapters of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) in Texas viewed the industrial engineers' (IEs) abilities to analyze/determine ergonomic risk factors, as well as the industrial engineers' abilities to design, develop, implement and evaluate controls to mitigate ergonomic risk. A sample of 319 members from nine different student chapters of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in Texas were selected to answer the questions above, as well as to determine if additional correlations existed within the demographic data collected. The 1,045 members of the GOErgo Facebook and LinkedIn groups were also selected to answer the questions above in order to determine if correlations existed, as well. Quantitative analysis was conducted by utilizing SPSS software to determine correlations, or lack of correlations, within the data; i.e. positive, perfect positive, negative and/or perfect negative correlations. Two negative correlations were discovered in regards to whether or not the number of required ergonomics courses should remain the same, increase, or decrease and also in regards to degree program preparedness for designing controls to mitigate ergonomic risk factors. A positive correlation was found in regards to degree preparedness to identify ergonomic risk factors. |
