Contact person for more information, including applications
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Department of Psychology:
Dr. Edward Cokely or Cambria Cotner, University of Oklahoma, Department of Psychology, 455 W. Lindsey Street, Dale Hall Tower, Room 705, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-2007;
cokely@ou.edu or cambria.cotner@ou.edu;
http://www.ou.edu/content/cas/psychology/
graduate-studies.html
Industrial and Systems Engineering:
Dr. Ziho Kang or Ms. Cheryl Carney, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 202 W. Boyd St., Room 124, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-1022,
Voice: 405.325.3721; Fax: 405.325.7555;
or ise@ou.edu
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Goals, objectives, and emphasis of the program
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The human factors specialization at OU prepares engineers and scientist-practitioners for diverse careers involving analysis and optimization of human performance and sociotechnical-systems (e.g., promoting safety, health, comfort, and quality of life; improving, integrating, informing, and innovating). All graduate students receive training in state-of-the-art human factors and engineering psychology methods, including core ergonomics content. Psychology graduates may specialize in human perception and attention; memory; neurobiology; reasoning and decision making; cognitive abilities and expertise; performance assessment and modeling; training and/or user-centered design. In ISE, the core engineering and human factors curriculum also includes broad exposure to operations research, manufacturing, and statistical analysis. Opportunities to conduct applied research, including cognitive engineering and user experience optimization, make our students attractive to academic and non-academic employers, providing them with unique perspectives that extend and enrich essential strengths in basic science (e.g., theory development and testing). Field experiences and independent research provide additional exposure to human factors engineering in aviation, computer science, risk communication, industrial engineering, health, 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, psychology, computer science, biology and exercise science, etc.).
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