Abstract
April Heiselt, Mississippi State UniversityAt Mississippi State University, students participated in a service-learning project as part of the Industrial Ergonomics course in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The project was completed with community partner, N & W Farms. N & W Farms is a sweet potato farm and distributor with operations including cleaning, sorting, packaging, and shipping sweet potatoes. These operations allowed students to apply their ergonomics and design skills learned in the course as well as acquire a better understanding for how engineering can be applied to benefit the community. This paper will showcase the tools used by the students for the project, a summary of how students applied those tools, and how successful students were when using these tools to find solutions to ergonomic and operations problems at N & W Farms.
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