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Human Factors is concerned with the design of jobs, consumer products, computer interfaces, machines, machine operations, and work environments, so that they are fully compatible with human characteristics, capacities, limitations and idiosyncrasies. Human Factors practitioners, operating within industrial, commercial, governmental and health organizations are called upon to apply existing human performance knowledge to the design or modification of equipment, and also to generate new experimental data required for equipment design. Accordingly, the MSIE concentration in Human Factors emphasizes both existing content areas and detailed experimental research methodology. Students in this area must have the following pre-requisite courses:
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EGN 3123 CAD, or equivalent
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EIN 3235 Evaluation of Engineering Data, or equivalent
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EIN 4243 Human Factors
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EIN 4214 Work Design and Ergonomics
Take the following core courses:
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EIN 6932 Graduate Seminar (0)
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EIN 6248 Advanced Ergonomics (3)
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One advanced statistics course (3)
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EIN 5256 Usability Engineering (3)
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EIN 6971 Master's Thesis (6)
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Elective graduate courses (15)
Tracks marked in MSIE with '*' are non-thesis.
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