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Mohini Dutt, PhD, AEP

Senior Ergonomist

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, January 2016

Concentration in Ergonomics and Human Factors

▪ PhD Dissertation: Associations between occupational lower extremity musculoskeletal disorders and tibial acceleration measures

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Master in Engineering & Management, May 2008

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering, May 2007

WORK EXPERIENCE

The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Senior Ergonomist, April 2016-Present

• Provide comprehensive ergonomics services (i.e. program development, risk assessment, job analysis/design recommendations, training, team development, guideline development) to clients and member companies/organizations.

• Serves as research liaison to facilitate coordination of ergonomics research projects between clients, member companies, and NCSU faculty and graduate research assistants.

Orthopaedic Ergonomics Laboratory, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Doctoral Student, 2012-2016

• Developed and designed experimental methods to understand the effect of workplace and individual factors on the development on lower extremity injury risk in manual material handling settings.

• Tested the validity and reliability of accelerometers to determine exposures in material handling jobs.

• Developed questionnaires and administered them to manual material handlers in retail and grocery distribution centers.

• Performed statistically robust studies to identify impacts of job functions on employee health and injuries utilizing lower extremity musculoskeletal accelerometer exposures.

Department of Engineering Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Instructor-On-Record/Graduate Teach Associate, 2009-2015

Led the ‘Introduction to Engineering’ course sequences and teaching MATLAB and SolidWorks to freshman engineering students.

Developed curriculum for the Introduction to Nanotechnology.

Successfully managed and mentored graduate and undergraduate teaching associates.

Led lab sessions, maintaining class records and evaluating of student performance.

SPECIAL SKILLS

• Workplace Design and Ergonomic Analysis using three-dimensional motion capture tools, along with accelerometers, EMG, NIOSH lifting equation, RULA, REBA, NASA TLX, MFA, Strain Index, virtual ergonomics tools like DELMIA and 3DSSPP

• Programming and Data visualization: MATLAB, Tableau

• Statistics: Design of Experiments, Regression Analysis, SAS, JMP, SPSS and Minitab

• Engineering Design/Graphics: SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator

• Usability testing: Moare

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Dutt, M., Lavender, S.A., Sommerich, C.M., Chaudhari, A.M.W. (2016). Relationships between Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Symptoms and Tibial Acceleration Measures in Distribution Center Workers. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting, pg 979-980.

Dutt, M., Lavender, S.A., Sommerich, C.M. Chaudhari, A.M.W. (2016). Associations between lower extremity musculoskeletal disorders and tibial acceleration measures. Ninth International Scientific Conference on the Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016.

Dutt, M., Lavender, S.A., Sommerich, C.M. Chaudhari, A.M.W. (2016). Investigation of the prevalence of lower extremity work-related musculoskeletal disorders in distribution center workers. 2016 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Poster 2194.

Dutt, M. (2016). Developing Models to Study Relationships between Tibial Acceleration Measures and Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorder Symptoms Experienced by Distribution Center Workers. (Doctoral Dissertation -The Ohio State University), Retrieved from .

Dutt M., Lavender, S.A., Chaudhari, A.M.W., Sommerich, C.M. (2015) Validity of accelerometers in predicting occupationally related lower extremity exposures: American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting.

Sommerich, C.M., Lavender, S.A., Radin Umar, R.Z., Li, J., Park, S., Dutt, M. (2015) A Biomechanical and Subjective Comparison of two Powered ambulance cots: Ergonomics.

Sommerich, C.M., Lavender, S.A., Radin Umar,R.Z., Li, J., Park, S., Dutt, M. (2013) Powered ambulance cots:

Effects of Design Differences on Muscle Activity and Subjective Perception of Operators: Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual Meeting.

Sommerich, C.M., Lavender, S.A., Radin Umar, R.Z., Le, P., Mehta, J., Ko, P.L., Farfan, R., Dutt, M., Park, S. (2012) A Biomechanical and Subjective Assessment and Comparison of three Ambulance Cot Design Configurations: Ergonomics.

Le, P., Dufour, J., Monat, H., Rose, J., Huber, Z., Alder, E., Radin Umar, R.Z., Hennessey, B., Dutt, M., Marras, W.S. (2012) Association between Spinal Loads and the Psychophysical determination of Maximum Acceptable Force during Pushing Tasks: Ergonomics.

AFFILIATIONS

Associate Ergonomics Professional (AEP), 2016-Present

Member, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2009-Present

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