Enid Montague, PhD

PEOPLE is a pre-college pipeline for students of color and low-income students, most of whom are the first in their families to potentially attend college. Their journey prepares them to apply, be successfully admitted and enroll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PEOPLE accepts highly motivated students into a rigorous program to build study skills, explore and strengthen academic and career interests, and gain a positive experience on a world-class campus.

Dr. Enid Montague and the HCI lab hosted an interactive talk about human-centered computing and engineering. The students participated in a  series of interactive activities to show why human capabilities and limitations are necessary for good designs.  The students then used participatory design methods to work on teams to brainstorm about solutions to an important problem; texting while driving. Graduate students from the human factors and ergonomics society student chapter helped with the activities and spoke about what inspired them to become engineers and  why they really love what they do. Dr. Barker a professor from Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Missouri joined in the activities and plans to give a similar presentation to junior high students at Missouri later this summer.

Dr. Montague will be speaking at the SASS conference and NIATx summit in a spotlight session on Trust and Technology July 11 2010.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has awarded a $583,125 grant to a team including Industrial and Systems Engineering Assistant Professor Enid Montague for a project on Dust-control Usage: Strategic Technology Intervention (DUSTI). More information about the OCHRE lab and the press release.

Dr. Enid Montague received a Kl2 Translational Research Career Award. This prestigious award provides up to $430,000 in support for four years as part of grant 1UL1RR025011 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program of the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. The Institute of Clinical and Translational Research program, is a 5- school UW-Madison initiative to expedite translation of health information from the bench to the bedside. More information can be found here.

Dr. Montague received a fellowship to attend the WISE workshop for TRUST team research for ubiquitous systems technology at the University of California-Berkeley.

On December 2008  Dr. Montague was named an Industrial and Systems Engineering Acclaimed Alum