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BACKGROUND:
Title: Experimental Psychology/HF (MA, PhD). Contact: Joel S. Warm, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 452210376; 513/556-5533; joel.warm@uc.edu. Est: 1981. Quarter. Granted last 3 years: MA 3, PhD 6. Part-time: no. Joint program: with Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Nuclear Engineering. The two departments confer separate degrees but cooperate closely in education and research. Program: Guided by a scientist-practitioner model. Training in the framework of general experimental psychology focuses on sensation/perception, perception/action, attention, cognition, motivation, information processing, human performance, stress, and HCI. Research skills are emphasized, and interdisciplinary work in industrial engineering is encouraged. Students have considerable opportunity to develop their own interests while receiving broad based HF training. HFES student chapter: no. Catalog: (free) University Dean for Research and Advanced Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0627.

APPLICATION:
Deadline: 1/7. Fee: $35.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
GPA: 3.0. GRE: 500 v, 500 q, 1000 v + q, 500 a. Other: TOEFL for foreign students; psychology or engineering bachelor's degree, 6 credits in statistics, 3 credits in research methods/experimental design. Learning/cognition, sensation/perception, motivation, computer programming, and research experience recommended. Research: high. Work experience: high. Letters: high. Interview: medium.

ADMISSIONS:
Students applying last year: 20. Accepted: 4. Openings/year: 4.

TUITION AND FEES:
Resident: $2270/quarter. Nonresident: $4489/quarter.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
% receiving: 100. Amount: $9945/$10557 Available: fellowship, TA, RA, all tuition exempt. Apply: with application.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS:
MA: 45 units, thesis defense, no languages or practical experience, 9 thesis research credits, 2-3 years. Nonthesis option: no. PhD: 135 units, qualifying exam and doctoral defense, no languages, 18 thesis research credits, internship recommended, 4-6 years.

CURRICULUM:
Required courses (units): Foundation Courses Core Content (18 units; Biological Basis of Behavior, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Perception, Cognition and Learning, Personality and Development, Social Psychology); Methods Courses (9 units: Graduate Statistics, Experimental Design, Psychological Measurement), Human Factors Courses (27 units; HF Seminar, Advanced Perception; Performance-Stress; Learning-Cognition, Perception-Action. Skills Learning). Required courses outside department: 6. Recommended courses outside department: several. Offered: night, summer. Class size: 10.

RESEARCH/TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES:
Research facilities: Equipment for perceptual/cognitive, physiological, biomechanical, driving simulation, and postural control studies. Facilities also available at the Medical Center and NIOSH Applied Psych and Ergonomics Branch. Students are eligible for research internships at the Armstrong HF Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The department participates in the Southwest Ohio HF and Ergonomics Consortium, which permits students to take courses and conduct research at Miami University and the University of Dayton. Teaching: First-year students serve as TAs or lab instructors in undergraduate courses (e.g., research methods); advanced students offer their own courses in introductory psychology and in advanced specialties such as statistics, perception, and cognitive processes. Current research: Internationally recognized for research on sustained attention (vigilance), attention and performance, driver behavior, stress, workload, and mood, and perception-action. Vigilance projects include studies of brain blood flow relations, intersensory interactions, training protocols, perceived mental workload, and task-induced stress. Work in perception-action focuses on postural control, perceptual-motor adaptation, haptic perception and proprioception, and motor coordination Other projects include studies in driver performance, the effects of stressors on performance and perceived mental workload, applied cognition, pattern recognition, psychoacoustics, speech perception, adaptive automation and adaptive interfaces in aviation psychology, and acceleration-induced unconsciousness/performance deficits in pilots.

STUDENT STATISTICS:
Active: 8 men, 9 women. First-year students: 4. Mean scores: MA/PhD: GRE 1115 v+q, GPA 3.8.

FACULTY:
Amit Bhattacharya, PhD 1975, U Kentucky; ergonomics. Peter Chiu, PhD 1997, Harvard U; virtual acoustics. Doran Christensen, DO 1975, College of Osteopathy, Medicine, and Surgery; occupational medicine. William N. Dember, 1955 U Michigan; perception/motivation. Traci L. Galinsky, PhD 1991, U Cincinnati; perception/musculoskeletal fatigue. Ash Genaidy, PhD 1987, U Miami; occupational biomechanics/workplace design. Paula l. Grubb, PhD, 1995, U Cincinnati; work-stress, human performance. Richard Honeck, PhD 1969, U Wisconsin; applied cognition. Ronald Huston, PhD 1962, U Pennsylvania; biomechanics. Gerald Matthews, PhD 1962, Cambridge U; driver behavior, human performance and stress.  William R. Meyers, PhD 1963, Harvard U; evaluation research, urban psychology, HF in the design of cities. Steven Sauter, PhD 1975, U Wisconsin; stress/human factors. Michael A. Riley, PhD 1999, U Connecticut; perceptual-motor adaptation, haptics, motor control, Donald Schumsky, PhD 1960, Tulane U; experimental design, learning, motor skills. Richard Shell, PhD 1970, U Illinois; work design, Naomi Swanson, PhD 1989, U Wisconsin; vision/occupational stress. Joel Warm, PhD 1966, U Alabama; sensation/perception, attention/performance, workload,  Ernest Weiler, PhD 1969, U Louisville; psychoacoustics. Daniel D. Wheeler, PhD 1969, U Michigan; applied cognition.