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Laura Ziegler
Laura Ziegler is the Research and Development Engineer at Southern Impact Research Center (SIRC). Her
responsibilities are focused in the areas of new product design and testing, engineering support for
litigation, as well as providing product risk assessment analysis. She has been involved in the development
of products ranging from football shoulder pads to military helmets to children's toys. Some of her
current research is focused on energy absorbing materials and developing new test methods to recreate head
injury mechanisms.
Laura is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and is a degreed engineer from the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville. She received her Bachelor's of Science in Engineering Science with a concentration
in Biomedical Engineering in 1996 from the Mechanical, Aerospace and Engineering Science Department within
the College of Engineering. She continued her graduate studies in this department and also within the
Department of Health and Exercise Science focusing her research on the loadings experienced by the human
knee joint in certain movements and the recruitment of muscle stabilizers around this joint. Her Masters
Thesis was entitled Effects of the Hamstring Group on Knee Joint Stress During Jump Landings. After
receiving her Masters of Science in Engineering Science with a concentration in Biomedical Engineering
in 1998, Laura went to work for National Seating Company, in Vonore, Tennessee, as a Comfort Engineer.
Laura was in charge of directing and conducting seating research as well as implementing new seating
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Some of Laura's prior work experience has also included internships during college at Environmental
Resources Management, Inc, an environmental consulting firm located in Brentwood, Tennessee, and as a
Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville teaching freshmen engineering
courses. |
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