2023-2024 Academic Catalog

PMO 651 Human Factors Engineering

This course is a practical introduction to the application of human physical, perceptive and cognitive abilities and behaviors, human performance engineering design criteria, and human factors principles and practices to the design of systems, subsystems, equipment and facilities. Particular emphasis is placed on the challenges of integration of the human to the machine and machine to human. Topics include basic human factors research and design methods, perception, cognition, information reception and processing, decision theory, memory, judgment, performance capabilities and limitations in human-machine systems. THIS COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED IN 2020/2021

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Concurrence of Course Director