Times Remembered: Refl ections on the Postgraduate Program in Ergonomics at the University of Cape Town 1983–1999

The Ergonomics Program ran from 1983 to 1999. It was established by Mr. H. M. (“Mike”) Cooke, an ergonomist from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Mike was

a South African who had taken early retirement from Loughborough and was working short-term contracts in South Africa. Mike had made it clear to George that he would work at UCT for one year only and that a replacement ergonomics lecturer would have to be found. Thus, it was that I joined the department in a temporary capacity in March 1984 and soon after Mike began his well-earned retirement in Cape Town.