Applied Industrial Ergonomics. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: IE 355 (see undergraduate catalog for description) or IE 699 . Introduces the fundamentals and applications of industrial ergonomics for improving equipment, tool, workplace, and job design. Engineers, as well as safety and health professionals, will benefit from the course by understanding the design principles for human operators and current issues in industrial ergonomics, and a variety of evaluating methodologies for the design.