Intermissions: Megan McCray --Human Factors Student, Pizza Critic

09/28/21 • 7 min

On this intermission, I interview Megan McCray, who moved to South Dakota to study Human Factors Engineering. Learn about human factors, a dog with excessive toe fur, and more about Megan and her studies in the USD graduate school.

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Inside Out Quality - Intermissions: Megan McCray --Human Factors Student, Pizza Critic

Transcript

Aaron Harmon00:00:00.450

Welcome to Inside Out quality intermissions, where we give you a closer look at the people who make this podcast possible and short features of local professionals in the biotech industry. Welcome to Inside Out quality intermission with Megan McCray. Hi, Megan. Hi, Aaron. The reason I've got you on this intermission is you are a graduate student at USD studying human factors engineering. And that's a huge thing in our space, the medical device