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PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Human factors – warning design and evaluation

Design and evaluation of human-product interfaces

System design and quality management

 

EDUCATION

B.S.I.E.             University of Illinois, 1978, Industrial Engineering

M.S.I.E.             University of Illinois, 1979, Industrial Engineering

Ph.D.                University of Illinois, 1981, Mechanical Engineering

 

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2011– Present   Chief Operating Officer, Southern Polytechnic Applied Research Corporation, Marietta,   GA.

Responsible for operations and administration of the University Research Foundation.

 

2008 – Present  Dean, Extended University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA.

Responsible for development, coordination and administration of externally funded research grants, sponsored programs, eCore classes and continuing education for the university. Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses in the Industrial Engineering Technology Department. Courses include Human Factors Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Statistics.

 

2007 – 2008      Director, Southern Polytechnic Applied Research Center, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA.

Responsible for development, coordination and administration of externally funded research grants and sponsored programs for the university. Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses in the Industrial Engineering Technology Department. Courses include Human Factors Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Statistics.

 

2006 – 2007      Department Chair, Industrial Engineering Technology, Associate Professor and Systems Engineering Program Coordinator, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA.

Responsible for management of the Industrial Engineering Technology Department with undergraduate programs in Industrial Engineering Technology, Systems Engineering and Apparel Textile Technology and graduate programs in Systems Engineering and Quality Assurance.

 

2003 - 2005       Assistant Professor and Systems Engineering Program Coordinator, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA

Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses in the Industrial Engineering Technology Department. Courses include Human Factors Engineering, Systems Engineering, Statistics and Total Quality Management. Also responsible for the Systems Engineering curriculum, scheduling classes and managing faculty and staff.

 

2002 - Present   President, RM Hunt, Ltd., Norcross, GA

Provide human factors based analysis and design of consumer and industrial products and hazard warning materials. Activities include development of warning information as well as post accident analysis of warnings in support of litigation.                 

 

 

1996 - 2002       President and CEO, Search Technology, Norcross, GA

Responsible for corporate wide planning and management. Technical activities include human factors consulting, expert witness testimony in human factors, software system design and development, program management, and review of all program deliverables. Frequent speaker at short courses, conferences and seminars including the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (ICLEG) and the Association of Insurance Subrogation Specialists.

 

1988 - 1995       President and Senior Scientist, Search Technology, Norcross, GA

Responsible for corporate wide planning and management. Technical activities include program management, review of all program deliverables, consulting and expert witness testimony in human factors.

 

 

1980-1987         Vice President and Senior Scientist, Search Technology, Norcross, GA

Conduct and manage research in the areas of design and evaluation of computer-based operator aids. The research results are applied in the form of consulting services to commercial clients. Experience ranges from nuclear power plant control rooms to shipboard computerization of non-tactical operations.

                       Also responsible for management of software engineering and marketing.

 

1981-1982         Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 Responsible for research and teaching in the area of man-machine systems and human factors. Specific interests in the areas of human behavior in fault diagnosis tasks and fault diagnosis training.

 

1978-1981         Research Assistant, University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Responsible for designing and conducting experiments involving computer based training, computer simulations and human subjects. Activities involved computer programming in BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal as well as statistical analysis and interpretation of results using the International Mathematics and Statistics Library (IMSL). This research was funded by the Army Research Institute. Also taught adult education classes in programming microcomputers.

 

1977-1978         Industrial Engineer, Kraft Foods, Champaign, IL

Responsible for large warehouse layout and organization of products for shipping. Established a forklift maintenance program for scheduling preventative maintenance and monitoring corrective maintenance.

 

1977-1977         Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Mechanical Engineering Department, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Taught an introductory course on manufacturing processes which included hands-on demonstrations of large metal cutting machinery and lectures on analytic tools for use in the manufacturing domain

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, American National Standards Institute

Member, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Member, International Council on Systems Engineering

Member, American Society for Engineering Education

Member, National Safety Council

Member, National Fire Protection Association

Past Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

Past Member, American Institute of Industrial Engineers

Past Member, Society for Information Display

 

 

ELECTED OFFICES

1982-1983         Secretary, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Herring Gas Company (2005). Read, Share, and Keep. Herring Gas Company Safety Booklet. (Note: Served as technical consultant, editor and member of a team that authored this item under contract with Herring Gas Company.)

Hunt, R.M. (1998). Yes They Can! Websites that Provide More than Information. Competitive Edge! July/August. Norcross, Georgia.

Hunt, R.M. (1997). Where in the World is the World Wide Web Headed in 1997? Competitive Edge! March/April. Norcross, Georgia.

Rouse, W.B., & Hunt, R.M. (1991). Transitioning advanced interface technology from aerospace to manufacturing applications. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.

Phillips 66 Company (1991). Safety and Warning Information Booklet for Propane Users. (Note: Served as project manager, editor and member of a team that authored this item under contract with Phillips 66 Company.)

Hunt, R.M. (1987). The difficulties of design problem formulation. In W.B. Rouse and K.R. Boff (Eds.), System Design: Behavioral Perspectives On Designing Tools, and Organizations. New York, NY: Elsevier Publishing.

Hunt, R.M., & Frey, P.R. (1987). Knowledge-aided display design (KADD) system: An evaluation. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Hunt, R.M., & Maddox, M.E. (1986). A practical method for designing human-machine system interfaces. Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Atlanta, GA.

Hunt, R.M. (1985). Human factors of intelligent computer aided display design. Proceedings of the First Annual Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Dayton, OH.

Hunt, R.M., & Rouse, W.B. (1984). A fuzzy rule-based model of human problem solving. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 14(1).

Rouse, W.B., & Hunt, R.M. (1984). Human problem solving in fault diagnosis tasks. In W.B. Rouse (Ed.), Advances in Man-Machine Systems Research. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Frey, P.R., Sides, W.H., Hunt, R.M., & Rouse, W.B. (1983). Computer-generated display system guidelines, Vol. l: Display Design. Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute.

Hunt, R.M. (1982). A fuzzy rule-based model of human problem solving. 1982 Proceedings of the American Control Conference. Washington, D.C.

Hunt, R.M. (1982) Rule based models of human control of dynamic processes. Proceedings of 1982 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Society. Seattle, WA.

Hunt, R.M. (1981). Characterizing the development of expertise in fault diagnosis tasks. 1981 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Society. Atlanta, GA.

Hunt, R.M., & Rouse, W.B. (1981). Problem solving skills of maintenance trainees in diagnosing faults in simulated powerplants. Human Factors, 23(3).

Rouse, W.B., & Hunt, R.M. (1981). A fuzzy rule-based model of human problem solving in fault diagnosis tasks. 1981 Proceedings of the Eighth Triennial World IFAC Conference. Kyoto, Japan.

 

technical reports

Johnson, W.B., Norton, J.E., Duncan, P.C., & Hunt, R.M. (1988). Development and demonstration of microcomputer intelligence for technical training (MITT) phase 1 final report (AFHRL Tech. Rep.). Brooks AFB, TX: Air Force Human Resources Laboratory.

Hunt, R.M. (1981). Human pattern recognition and information seeking in simulated fault diagnosis tasks. (Report No. T-110, Ph.D. Thesis). Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

Rouse, W.B., Rouse, S.H., Johnson, W.B., & Hunt, R.M. (1980). Human decision-making in computer-aided fault diagnosis (Report No. 431). Arlington, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Hunt, R.M. (1979). A study of transfer of problem solving skills from context-free to context-specific fault diagnosis tasks. (Report No. T-82, M.S. Thesis). Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.