Published Jun 01, 2017
Dr. Pamela McCauley is an ergonomics and bio-mechanics expert. She is director of the Ergonomics Laboratory in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, where she leads human factors and ergonomics in disaster management research.
Previously, she held the position of Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is the author of 80 technical papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and the best-selling ergonomics textbook, Ergonomics: Foundation Principles, Applications, and Technologies.
Many of her leadership, diversity, innovation and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education-related keynote talks draw from her research-based book, Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation: Inspiration and Strategies for Women. The book examines the growing need for leadership and innovation in America, particularly among women and STEM professionals.
To inspire students, particularly minorities and females, to consider careers in STEM, she authored, Winners Don’t Quit…Today they Call Me Doctor in which she shares her inspirational journey to engineering success despite personal difficulties. Dr. McCauley had a daughter aged 15. Fifteen years later she had a Ph. D. in engineering.
Dr. McCauley’s teaching efforts have resulted in the receipt of both the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Teaching Incentive Program Award. She is also the recipient of the 2015 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Educational Leadership and the Promotion of College-Level Education.
The U.S. State Department awarded Dr. McCauley the prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship for the 2015-2016 term. Jefferson Science Fellowships are distinguished appointments to senior academics based on their stature, recognition, and experience in the scientific or engineering communities, and their ability to understand scientific advancements outside their discipline area to integrate this knowledge into U.S. Department of State/USAID policy discussions.
Dr. McCauley has the distinction of being a 2012 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Specialist Program Awardee for her US-New Zealand Human Engineering and Mobile Technology in High Consequence Emergency Management Research Program due to her extensive experience in bio-mechanics, human factors, and ergonomic design.
Over the past twenty years, Dr. McCauley has held various leadership positions and received numerous awards in the business, technology, and education communities.
She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Oklahoma, the Engineer of the Year Award from the Florida Engineering Society, and has been recognized by the Society of Women Engineers as Engineering Educator of the year, and as the Millennium Woman of the Year by the Millennium Woman Foundation.
Dr. McCauley was elected as Councilor to the National Executive Advisory Board of the Association of Women In Science (AWIS) for the 2015–2016 terms.
She currently serves as Board Member, Diversity Advocacy Board at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and maintains board membership in the Central Florida Boys Scouts, the University of Oklahoma Industrial Engineering Advisory Board and the University of Oklahoma, College of Engineering Minority Engineering Advisory Board.
