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 online courses also are denoted in the HFES Directory of Graduate Programs. See the educational resources review criteria page to view selection criteria for online courses.

If you have any suggestions for content or information to add to this page, please contact HFES.

• 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)