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BACKGROUND:
Title: Cognitive/Experimental Psychology with emphasis on Human Factors (MS, PhD). Contact: Richard Jagacinski, Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, 142 Townshend Hall, Columbus, OH 43210; 614/292-1870; jagacinski.1@osu.edu. Est: 1938. Quarter. Granted last 3 years: MA 1, PhD 3. Part-time: no. Program: Training provided in fundamental research skills and in the areas of attention, memory, perception, motor skills, problem solving, and decision theory. Applied courses and field experiences help relate these basic areas to human factors engineering in aviation, computer science, and other applied problems. Experience in college teaching is an option, as are applied internships. Course structure is flexible with ample opportunity for interdisciplinary studies (industrial engineering, aviation, computer science, cognitive science, and others). HFES student chapter: no. Catalog: (free) Ohio State University -- Admissions, 3rd Floor Lincoln Tower, 1800 Cannon Dr., Columbus, OH 43210.

APPLICATION:
Deadline: 1/1. Fee: $30 domestic, $40 foreign applicants. Separate applications required for university and department.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
GPA: 3.2. GRE: 1250 v + q. Other: Bachelor's degree in psychology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, or other science (rec). Research: medium. Work experience: medium. Letters: medium. Interview: low.

ADMISSIONS:
Students applying last year: 6. Accepted: 1. Entered program: 0. Openings/year: 3.

TUITION AND FEES:
Resident: $2111/quarter. Nonresident: $5468/quarter.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
% receiving: 67. Amount: $9450/$10800/$14400. Available: fellowships, TA, RA, all tuition exempt. Apply: with application by January 1.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS:
MA: 45 units, oral thesis, no languages or practical experience, thesis, 2 years. Nonthesis option: no. PhD: 135 units, general exams and oral dissertation, no languages or practical experience, dissertation and one additional research project, 6 years.

CURRICULUM:
Required courses (units): Statistics (12), History of Psychology (3). Electives: Human Performance (4), Decision Processes (4), Visual Perception (3), Cognitive Engineering (3), Cognitive Psychology (4), Complex Information Processing in Cognition (3), Human Learning (4), Mathematical Models of Measurement (4), Mathematical Models of Decision Making (2), Workload Measurement (2), Human-Computer Interaction (3), Survey of Artificial Intelligence (3), Introduction to Cognitive Science (3), Aviation Human Factors (3). Required courses outside department: 0. Recommended courses outside department: 3. Class size: 10.

RESEARCH/TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES:
Research facilities: The Psychology Department provides computerized research facilities for studies of evoked potentials, cardiovascular psychophysiology, manual control systems, decision making, visual information processing, 3D perception, and workload measurement. Teaching: Students may apply to teach introductory psychology or assist in other courses, such as statistics. Current research: Research projects include mathematical models of decision making under uncertainty, risk, or high workload; biases in likelihood estimation; individual decision making in group contexts; attention and memory; psychophysiology; event-related potentials as measures of attention and cognition; visual search; psychophysics, perceptual matching; 3D shape perception; aviation human factors; and perceptual-motor coordination.

STUDENT STATISTICS:
Active: 1 man, 0 women. First-year students: 0.

FACULTY:
Richard Jagacinski, PhD 1973, U Michigan; perceptual-motor skills, aging, decision making, environmental psychology. Lester Krueger, PhD 1969, Harvard U; visual information processing, binary decisions, psychophysics, statistical decision making. Thomas Nygren, PhD 1975, U Illinois; workload measurement, decision making under uncertainty or stress, scaling theory. Nadine Sarter, PhD 1994, Ohio State U;  multimodal interfaces, human-automation communication and coordination, human error.  Harvey Shulman, PhD 1969, U Michigan; memory, attention, and workload; psychophysiology and neuropsychology. James S. Tittle, PhD 1991, UC Irvine; 3D shape perception, integration of visual information from stereopsis and motion, aviation human factors.