Katie Goggins

Katie was a PhD student in the Bharti School of Engineering at Laurentian University (2014–2019). She did her undergrad and M.Sc. in the School of Human Kinetics, and then worked as an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) officer for Golder Associates. Her research focused on measuring and modelling the effects of foot-transmitted vibration on the human body. She was co-supervised by Dr. Tammy Eger, Research Chair in OHS, from the School of Human Kinetics.

Katie is now working as a post-doc with Laurentian University's Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH).

Publications:

• Goggins KA, Oddson BE, Lievers WB, Eger TR. Anatomical locations for capturing magnitude differences in foot-transmitted vibration exposure, determined using multiple correspondence analysis. Theor Issues Ergonomic Sci. 2020;21(5):562-576. doi: 10.1080/1463922X.2020.1731623
• Lievers WB, Goggins KA, Adamic P. Epidemiology of foot injuries using National Collegiate Athletic Association data from the 2009-2010 through 2014-2015 seasons. J Athl Train. 2020;55(2):181-187. doi:10.4085/1062-6050-560-18
• Goggins KA, Tarabini M, Lievers WB, Eger TR. Standing centre of pressure alters the vibration transmissibility response of the foot. Ergonomics. 2019;62(9):1202-1213. doi:10.1080/00140139.2019.1626490
• Goggins KA, Tarabini M, Lievers WB, Eger TR. Biomechanical response of the human foot when standing in a natural position while exposed to vertical vibration from 10-200Hz. Ergonomics. 2019;62(5):644-656. doi:10.1080/00140139.2018.1559362
• Goggins K, Tarabini M, Lievers B, Eger T. Resonant frequency identification at 24 locations on the foot when standing in a natural upright position during vertical vibration exposure. Proceedings of the 7th American Conference on Human Vibration (ACHV2018). June 13-15, 2018;​ Seattle, WA:52-53.
• Goggins K, Tarabini M, Lievers B, Eger T. Standing centre of pressure alters the virbation transmissibility response of the foot. Proceedings of the 7th American Conference on Human Vibration (ACHV2018). June 13-15, 2018;​ Seattle, WA:33-34.
• Goggins K, Tarabini M, Corti F, Lievers B, Eger T. Resonant frequency identification at the foot when standing in a natural upright position during vertical vibration exposure. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Whole Body Vibration (WBV2017). June 19–21, 2017;​ Gothenburg, Sweden:85-86.

Thesis

• Goggins KA. Measuring and modelling human response to foot-transmitted vibration exposure [PhD Thesis]. Laurentian University: Sudbury, ON; July 2019 https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3332

Britney Lamarche

Publications

• Lamarche BA, Thomsen JS, Andreasen CM, Andersen TL, Lievers WB. Changes with age in the trabecular bone structural units (BSU) of the lumbar spine. Oral presentation at the Northern Research Health Conference (NHRC2020) Conference. October 2, 2020;​ Sudbury, ON (online due to COVID). https://youtu.be/YYdS_wzDYSM
• Lamarche BA, Thomsen JS, Andreasen CM, Andersen TL, Lievers WB. Trabecular bone structural units (BSU) in the lumbar spine decrease in size with age and bone volume fraction. Poster presented at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR2020) Conference. September 11-15, 2020;​ Seattle, WA (online due to COVID). [PDF]

Adric Heney

Adric was a MASc student at Queen’s University, working under the co-supervision of Dr. Keith Pilkey. He graduated in 2017 from the materials option of the mechanical engineering program at Queen’s, throughout which he worked with Dr. Pilkey as an undergraduate research assistant working with both high-strength steel and trabecular bone. Upon graduating he began his master’s research, focusing on the uniaxial compressive mechanical behaviour of bovine trabecular bone using x-ray micro-computed tomography as a characterization technique which he completed in 2019

Adric now works at Hepburn Engineering in Toronto, Ontario.

Publications

• Heney A, Lievers WB, Pilkey AK. Effect of fatigue-induced microdamage on the compressive properties of trabecular bone. Paper presented at the 16th Ontario Biomechanics Conference (OBC2019). March 8-10, 2019;​ New Tecumseh, ON. [PDF]

Thesis

• Heney AP. Effect of fatigue-induced microdamage on the compressive properties of bovine trabecular bone [Master’s Thesis]. Queen’s University: Kingston, ON; September 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/26684

Justin Gaudet

Justin graduated from the Bharti School of Engineering in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After working for a couple of years for IONIC Engineering in Sudbury, he has returned to Laurentian to pursue a Master's degree in 2016. Justin's research, which is co-supervised by Dr. Scott Fairgrieve of the Department of Forensics, aims to improve the force measures recorded by an instrumented blunt- and sharp-force simulator.

Justin is now a farmer with Valley Growers near Sudbury, Ontario.

Publications:

• Gaudet JR, Lievers WB, Fairgrieve SI. Development and commissioning of an instrumented pneumatic device to simulate blunt- and sharp-force trauma. Forensic Sci Int. 2020;307:110123. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.110123
• Gaudet J, Lievers WB, Fairgrieve S. The Bone Impactor: An instrumented device for simulating blunt- or sharp-force trauma. Poster presented at the 2017 International Association of Forensic Sciences Conference (IAFS 2017). August 21—25, 2017; Toronto, Canada. [PDF]

Benjamin Helbling

Benjamin, who is studying mechanical engineering at the Bharti School of Engineering, worked as an NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Award) student during the summer of 2016. During that time, he worked on commissioning and validating the instrumented blunt- and sharp-force impact simulator.