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Pickens, Adam

Instructional Associate Professor

Positions:

Managing Director; Ergonomics Center, The Texas A&M University System
Instructional Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health

Research Areas:

Industrial safety--Standards, Industrial safety

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apickens@tamu.edu

1 979 436-9331

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Research Areas:

Industrial safety--Standards, Industrial safety

overview

My group conducts research on occupational safety, upper extremity disorders, occupational biomechanics, occupational ergonomics, and human factors engineering.

education and training

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech University - (Amarillo, Texas, United States) 2008
M.P.H. in Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2003
B.S. in Biomedical Science, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 1999

selected publications

Academic Articles22

Drake, S. A., Thoene, C., Foster, M., Porta, C., & Pickens, A. W. (2022). Medicolegal death investigator workplace safety hazards: A scoping review of the literature.. J Forensic Sci. 67(1), 44-55.
Benden, M., Mehta, R., Pickens, A., Harp, B., Smith, M. L., Towne, S. D., & Peres, S. C. (2021). Health-related consequences of the type and utilization rates of electronic devices by college students.. BMC Public Health. 21(1), 1970.
Johnson, W. D., Peres, S. C., Benden, M. E., Mehta, R. K., Pickens, A., Smith, M. L., Sweany, N., & Johnson, M. A. (2021). Lingual and non-lingual safety training methodology effectiveness: Does language of origin impact effectiveness. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ERGONOMICS. 86, 103183-103183.
Sharma, P. P., Mehta, R. K., Pickens, A., Han, G., & Benden, M. (2019). Sit-Stand Desk Software Can Now Monitor and Prompt Office Workers to Change Health Behaviors.. Hum Factors. 61(5), 816-824.
Garrett, G., Zhao, H., Pickens, A., Mehta, R., Preston, L., Powell, A., & Benden, M. (2019). Computer-based Prompt's impact on postural variability and sit-stand desk usage behavior; a cluster randomized control trial.. Appl Ergon. 79, 17-24.

Conference Papers2

Pickens, A. W. (2016). Mobile hearing screening: A viable option?. ASSE Professional Development Conference and Exposition 2016.
Pickens, A. W., & Benden, M. E. (2013). Curriculum Development for HF/E Graduate Students. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 57(1), 452-456.