Helmut T. Zwahlen is a Russ Professor Emeritus of the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department and a Research Professor of the Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio University. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1962 from the State of Berne Institute of Technology in Burgdorf, Switzerland, his masters degree in 1968 from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Ohio University and his Ph.D. in 1972 from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the Ohio State University. He started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Ohio University in 1971.
Research Activities
Parallel to his teaching duties Dr. Zwahlen has been the principal investigator of an extensive number of sponsored research projects supported by federal and state agencies and industry. Many of the projects dealt with transportation, traffic safety, visibility, traffic signing, human factors, driver performance, driver eye scanning and driver risk-taking topics. He is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a recipient of the society's A. R. Lauer traffic safety award. He has published in excess of 100 technical papers and reports and he also serves as a member on several committees of the Transportation Research Board.
