Early Career Research Fellow Track 3 (Offshore Energy Safety) - Changwon Son
Implementing Organization
Texas Tech
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$75,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Changwon Son is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and his M.S. in Safety Engineering from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. Before joining the graduate programs, he worked at a large shipbuilding company as a safety engineer who planned and executed various safety engineering improvements and worksite safety programs. His current research is focused on supporting human cognition and decision-making in the context of incidents and disasters. Specifically, he conducted several research projects on designing operating procedures to support human operators' adaptive behavior in the oil and gas industry and understanding dynamic interactions between emergency response team members during disaster responses. His long-term career goal is to address growing threats from disasters using innovative safety and human factors approaches and protect vulnerable communities that are impacted by the disasters. He serves as an editorial board member of the Human Factors in Healthcare journal and a reviewer for many occupational safety and health journals. He was selected as an Emerging Leader of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2020 and a Young Talent of Resilience Engineering Association in 2017. He received the National Ergonomics Month Best Educational Resource for K-12 Award in 2020 and the Texas Safety Foundation Steve Halliburton HSE Scholarship in 2018. His research has been published in safety and health journals, such as Safety Science and the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
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