Biography

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Victor L. Paquet, ScD is Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at UB. He is Co-Director of the UB’s Occupational Safety and Health Training Grant Program and UB’s Center for Excellence in Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environments (Home-BASE). Dr. Paquet was Co-Director of the Anthropometry of Wheeled Mobility research program for the U.S. Access Board and Co-Leads key projects in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment and the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation. He has authored or co-authored over 95 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference publications in the areas of universal design and occupational ergonomics. In 2004, he edited a Special Issue of the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics on “Anthropometry and Disability”, and in 2010 he co-edited a Special Issue of Assistive Technology on “Space Requirements for Wheeled Mobility”.