Martha Parker, M.S., CPE is an ergonomist and managing director of the Texas A&M Ergo Center in College Station, TX. She contributes to and manages multiple consulting projects, continuing education classes, and research projects within the Ergo Center. In addition, Ms. Parker guides and mentors students as they understand the multi-factorial determinants of increased productivity and decreased injury/illness. Formerly with m-erg, an ergonomic consulting firm based in Houston, TX, Martha was president and founder. Her m-erg team technically supported customers by offering ergonomic assistance in design, redesign, and retrofit of new and existing office and industrial workspaces. m-erg also provided ergonomic training through seminars and individual workstation evaluations. Prior to that, Martha worked for Neutral Posture, Inc. as an ergonomist and was a founding member of the Neutral Posture Ergonomic Engineering Team (NEET). She also worked for ALCOA, Tennessee Operations as the smelting safety engineer and for Texas A&M University as a graduate research assistant. Martha is currently enrolled as a PhD student in interdisciplinary engineering at Texas A&M, and she earned her M.S. degree in Safety Engineering with an Ergonomic Specialty in May 1997. Her graduate thesis is entitled “An Investigation of the Transportation Methods of Laptop Computers”. She acquired a B.S. in Bioengineering with an Industrial Engineering Specialty from Texas A&M in December 1995. She is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), the Applied Ergonomics Society (AES) and the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). She is registered with the International Well Building Institute as a WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) and with the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics as a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE).
- Email: marthaparker@tamu.edu
Education & Work
Education
- Ph.D., INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, 2024 (expected), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
- M.S., SAFETY ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS SPECIALTY, May 1997, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
- B.S., BIO ENGINEERING; December 1995, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas