Thomas Rowell, MS, CPE

Thomas Rowell, MS, CPE

Tom is a Certified Professional Ergonomist with 35 years of industrial experience. He started in ergonomics at IBM in Austin, TX where he was responsible for ergonomics program development and implementation for the site of over 10,000 employees. He has years of experience with workplace evaluation and analysis, injury investigation, design review, equipment inspection, ergonomics and safety auditing, medical staff interface to reduce injury severity and worker’s compensation costs, and ergonomics training. He spent seven years as manufacturing operations manager for an OEM company that makes sanitary filters for the food and beverage industry. He is a member of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society and the Applied Ergonomics Society (IISE). He holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and is certified by the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics as a Certified Professional Ergonomist. Since 2014 he has been a consulting ergonomist in his own practice providing services to small, medium, and large clients throughout the United States. From 2020 to present Tom has been involved with planning of the annual IISE/Applied Ergonomics Conference (2024 & 2025 Keynote committee co-chair). In 2021 Tom was tapped to become liaison between HFES and AES to help facilitate and grow the connection between the societies resulting from the society’s MOU. In 2022 Tom was elected to a position within HFES in the Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group (HFES Aspire: 2024 OETG Program Chair).