Human Factors Engineering (University of Michigan)
About the course
With this hands-on, multidisciplinary training program—now in its 65th year—you can gain essential design experience and learn how to solve a wide range of human factors engineering and ergonomics problems. Identify potential and implement user testing to improve your product.
Who should attend?
- Human factors specialist
- Human factors engineer
- Human factors psychologist
- Engineering psychologist
- Usability engineer
- User experience engineer
- Usability analyst
- Ergonomist
- Ergonomics engineer
- Safety engineer
- Forensic expert
- Training needs analyst
- Systems Integration engineer
- Occupational therapist
Why should you attend?
Through more than 30 lectures, interactive workshops, seminars, tours, and more, you can gain a comprehensive and detailed description of models, theories, and data that you can apply to your work.
Expected outcomes
- Identify the human factors/ergonomics problems attendees face. Work through solutions from industries focused on a variety of outputs, including medical devices, aerospace, technology, and more.
- Apply the science of human factors —principles, equations, and models—to solve practical problems.
- Accept processes—design and test methods—to improve safety, system, and human performance.
- Find and use human factors data relevant to practical problems related to anthropometry, task times, human error, biomechanics, and many other topics.
- Learn to access relevant books, journal articles, conference papers, websites, design standards, and other information pertaining to each course topic.
Course content
Week 1: The first week of the course focuses on human factors concepts, offering a broad survey of human factors topics important to researchers, designers, and manufacturers in a variety of work environments.
Week 2: Human-computer interaction (HCI) and intelligent system design are the focus for week two, providing an overview of these issues through workshops that lay the foundation for effective intelligent systems. This is the future of all systems.
Assessment: No
What’s included?
- Access to all course materials through our Leaning Management System
- Tour specific to this course
- Hands on activities
- Breakfast and lunch
- Digital badge and certificate of completion at the end of the course
About Michigan Engineering Online & Professional Education
Michigan Engineering Online & Professional Education supports continuing education by offering professional education certificates and designing and supporting online degree programs from the University of Michigan College of Engineering. With us, lifelong learners across all fields can engage with renowned U-M faculty either online, on campus, or on location.
