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Goals, objectives, and emphasis of the program
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In conjunction with the Department of Industrial Engineering, students receive balanced training in human factors and ergonomics. Our program prepares students for employment in academia, government, and industry. Primary training is in fundamental processes of human behavior, research methods, and statistics. We are committed to the integration of basic and applied research. Areas of emphasis include transportation, automation (e.g., automated driving), human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, human factors of cybersecurity, health care (e.g., minimally-invasive surgery, nursing, mental health treatment), vigilance, neuroergonomics, individual and team workload and stress, perception and performance (e.g., affordance perception; telerobotics; auditory and multimodal displays). Graduates of our program have been employed as university professors (e.g., Auburn University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of South Dakota, Wichita State University), government researchers (e.g., Federal Aviation Administration, Sandia National Laboratories, US Air Force, US Army, US Navy) and industry researchers (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Sony PlayStation, Facebook, Fitbit, Simple Interact, Dell, Intel, Amazon Web Services, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lear Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Oakhill Technology, Roche Diagnostics, Raytheon, Sprint, SUN Microsystems, Titan Industries, SA Technologies, SBC Technology, State Farm, Honeywell, Medtronic, Human Interfaces, BCI, and Siemens, Lockheed-Martin).
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