Course Description
Analysis and design of systems considering human characteristics, capabilities and limitations. Analysis and design of displays, controls, tools, and workstations. Human performance analysis. Human factors research methods.
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Learning Outcomes
The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:
- Describe in writing the meaning and importance of human factors engineering, with reference materials.
- Describe in writing and/or by illustrations human sensory, cognitive, and physical capabilities and limitations relevant to the design of human-machine systems, with reference materials.
- Correctly apply human-machine system design principles to develop written and graphical design specifications, with reference materials.
- Select and correctly use appropriate human-machine system analysis and design tools, with reference materials.
- Recognize and make effective recommendations in written and/or graphical form to correct human factors deficiencies in existing human-machine systems, with reference materials.
- Describe in writing and/or by illustrations the human-machine systems engineering process, with reference materials.
- Correctly apply the human-machine systems engineering process by developing analysis documents and design specifications for a simple human-machine system, with reference materials.
- Design, conduct, and document a human factors experiment or other human factors study approved by the instructor.
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