Online Courses on General Topics
This list represents a sampling of courses on general topics in HF/E that are available through the Internet. This is not intended as a comprehensive list. Programs that offer on line courses also are denoted in the HFES Directory of Graduate Programs.
- Is the course related to the study and/or practice of human factors/ergonomics?
- Is the topic of the course current?
- Is the course readily accessible? (For example, avoid posting links to courses that are no longer available.)
- Only Web site links to these continuing education opportunities are provided. It is the user's responsibility to determine if access is free or requires payment of a fee.
- HFES does not guarantee the quality of these educational experiences. It is the user's responsibility to determine the accuracy of the tool and its results.
Note: This list is not comprehensive. Please contact HFES if you would like to recommend additions.
- Results of survey of E-Learning in Nonprofits and Associations (Isoph Institute)
Auburn University
- Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, and Injury Prevention Program
Degree offerings include MISE, M.S., Ph.D. in OSE; Ph.D. in Injury Prevention. Multiple courses are offered in each of the following topics: Occupational Safety, Ergonomics, Industrial Hygiene, and Human Factors. Link to courses
California State University, Northridge
- Department of Distance Learning Online Programs
- Engineering Management Program
Course list includes: Engineering Management, Engineering Statistics, Engineering Decision/Risk Analysis, Economic Analyses of Engineering, and Engineering Operations Research.
* M.S. program is available completely online.
- Instructional Design and Adult Development Program
Course list includes: Seminar in Adult Development, Assessment and Evaluation of Learning, Instructional Design, Human Factors and Adult Learning Systems, Issues in Professional Development, and Adult Learning and Instruction.
* Offers online credit certificate.
Florida Institute of Technology
- College of Aeronautics
- Aviation Human Factors Information
M.S. degree program includes studies that identify principles of human/machine interaction, design and operation of engineering systems, and both a research domain in cognitive, physiological, and engineering theory with application.
- Full Degree Programs and Requirements Catalog
* Offers M.S. degree with a Human Factors in Aeronautics (HFA) Major completely online.
North Carolina State University
- Engineering Online Program
Degrees and Certificates
Courses include Occupational Safety Engineering, Occupational Biomechanics
Pennsylvania State University
- Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Degrees Offered
Human Factors/Ergonomics courses include: Human/Computer Interface Design, Work Design-Productivity and Safety, Experimental Design in Engineering, Discrete Event Systems Simulation, Mechanics of the Musculoskeletal System, Engineering of Human Work, and Engineering of Cognitive Work.
- Penn State Online
Search courses offered. (Courses include Introduction to Work Design, and Work Design-Productivity and Safety.)
Purdue University
- Department of Distance Learning
Distance Learning Degree and Certificate programs
- Engineering Professional Education program
Master's of Industrial Engineering program courses include Computational Engineering, Human Factors Engineering and Human-Computer Systems, Manufacturing Processes and Precision Engineering, Production Systems Design, Automation and Control, Mathematical Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Engineering Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Computer Simulation.
* Classes are available primarily through streaming video over the Internet. Select courses are available via Webcast, CD, DVD, or videotape.
University of Alabama, Huntsville
- Department of Psychology
Courses listed in Experimental Handbook include: Work Design, Human Factors, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Human Factors in System Design.
* Elective courses are periodically available on DVD.
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Department of Industrial Engineering
Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering.
Distance Learning courses offered via Internet and video include: Design and Analysis of Experiments, Occupational and Systems Safety, Sociotechnical Systems (as stated on the HFES Web site).
University of Idaho
- Engineering Outreach Home Page
Psychology, Human Factors program courses include: Engineering Psychology, Ergonomics and Biomechanics, Human-Computer Interaction, Research Methods, Advanced Research Methods, Advanced Human Factors, Statistical Analysis.
* Courses offered can be applied to the M.S. degree but courses do not necessarily fulfill all degree requirements.
University of Maryland
- Department of Professional Studies
Public Health Informatics program list of courses include: Public Health Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems in Public Health Surveillance, Information Management for Public Health Professionals, and Advanced Health Informatics.
* Certificate Program can be completed in 8 months online.
* There are 12 graduate credits that can be applied toward the MPH and Ph.D. degrees.
University of Virginia
- Department of Systems and Information Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction Home Page
The department offers Human Computer/Cognitive Systems Engineering M.E., M.S., and Ph.D.
* Some courses are taught through Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program’s Distance learning on a rolling basis.
* Courses are for credit and are viewable from video sites throughout Virginia.
- Distance Learning courses are taught through the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program distance learning program on a rolling basis. These courses are for credit and are viewable from video sites throughout Virginia.
- Degree Programs include: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering (Structural), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
Virginia Tech University
- E-Learning link to Cognitive Ergonomics
Online training for personal or professional development (noncredit)
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