Please welcome Dr. Clark Dickerson to the ISE Department. Dr. Dickerson serves as a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). He will discuss several unique fundamental characteristics of shoulder mechanics and how developing models and representations of this body region can inform a wide range of design, clinical, ergonomic, and biological investigations and applications.
As always refreshments are available in 428 Daniels Hall 30 minutes before the seminar begins.
Shoulder health is important for independent function throughout life, and enables many of the activities that separate humans from other species. Underlying human shoulder function is a complex, mechanically redundant network of bones, ligaments and tendons. This talk discusses several unique fundamental characteristics of shoulder mechanics, and how developing models and representations of this body region can inform a wide range of design, clinical, ergonomic, and biological investigations and applications. Focus will be placed on using biomechanical insights to address current and emergent occupational scenarios.
Dr. Clark Dickerson is a Professor of Kinesiology and Canada Research Chair in Shoulder Mechanics at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). His research focuses on human musculoskeletal biomechanics, particularly of the shoulder. He earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering at Alfred University, his Master of Science in bioengineering from Clemson University, and his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan. His current research within the Digital Industrial Ergonomics and Shoulder Evaluation Laboratory (DIESEL) includes the development and experimental evaluation of computational shoulder models, creating and testing of computerized ergonomic analysis tools, work design and redesign (both virtual and physical), overhead exertions, comparative primate biomechanics, shoulder tissue tolerance estimation, and assessing and aiding shoulder-vulnerable populations. Dr. Dickerson teaches courses in Occupational Biomechanics, Ergonomics, Upper Extremity Disorders, and Biomechanical Modeling. He is the current past-president of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics and on the executive board of the International Shoulder Group (a technical group of the International Society of Biomechanics).
