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Design systems, products, and services to effectively meet the user’s needs.
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Human factors engineering is the study of how people interact with systems, products, and environments. It focuses on designing tools, interfaces, and processes that align with human abilities and limitations to improve safety, usability, and performance.
| Instruction Time | Completion Time | CEUs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 8:00am-6:00pm ET | 5.5 days | 4 |
| Week 2 | 8:00am-6:00pm ET | 4.5 days | 4 |
| Week 1 & Week 2 | 8:00am-6:00pm ET | 10 days | 8 |
Human factors engineering concepts apply to almost any situation where a person is using a system, product, or service. 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. 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.
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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.
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.
Engineers, psychologists, medical professionals, managers, and others interested in human factors, ergonomics, human-computer interaction, or usability. Attendees often work in industry, government, or the military.
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Dr. Paul Green teaches automotive human factors and human-computer interaction classes at the University of Michigan. A leader of U-M’s Human Factors Engineering Short Course for twenty-seven years, he is also the past president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Green leads a research team that focuses on driver distraction, driver workload, and workload managers, navigation system design, and motor-vehicle controls and displays.
Human factors engineering is used in industries such as healthcare, aviation, automotive, and consumer technology to design systems that reduce human error and improve usability. Examples include safer medical devices, intuitive vehicle controls, and user interfaces that support efficient and accurate decision-making.
Usability analysis; ergonomic design; human-system interaction; safety considerations; user-centered evaluation.
Engineers, designers, and product teams building systems that people can use safely and effectively.
What does Human Factors Engineering cover? Human Factors Engineering focuses on designing products, systems, and environments that fit human capabilities and limitations. Participants learn how usability, safety, cognition, and ergonomics affect performance and design quality.
Who should take Human Factors Engineering? Engineers, designers, and product teams building systems that people can use safely and effectively.
How is Human Factors Engineering used in practice? These methods are applied in product and system design to improve usability, reduce error, and support safe human performance.
What is human factors engineering? How does ergonomics affect design? How do teams improve usability and safety?
Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership in the Age of AI, Lean Six SIgma Green Belt
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