This course introduces principles, strategies and models of methods engineering, human factors, and ergonomics, emphasizing human capabilities, limitations, and tendencies, and design to support humans in sociotechnical work systems. Topics include human information processing, physiological and biomechanical functioning, and implications for design of the workplace and jobs in that workplace. The field of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) is interdisciplinary, with applications wherever humans interact with equipment in a system context.
- Teacher: Samuel A. Bonet-Olivencia