Engineer This!: Investigating fatigue and drowsy driving among health care workers (featuring Alec Smith)
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English - October 27, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEducation Technology engineering news technology research texas a&m tamu student university education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Doctors and nurses work long, 12-hour shifts which impact their physical, mental and emotional health, with or without the additional stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers in the Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are researching the impacts of these shifts and ways to help health care workers. One part of that research looks at a potentially dangerous side effect of fatigue: drowsy driving.
In this episode, we’re joined by Alec Smith, a doctoral student in the department, to learn more about his research on drowsy driving among nurses.