The class is broken down into three sections each of which will have separate
sets of assignments. The first section of the class will consist primarily
of lecture/discussion on the background information of Human Factors. This
section will conclude with an examination. The examination will be worth
100 points and will be for a mixed format. The types of items will be multiple
choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, problems and essays, etc.
The second and third sections of the course will be the projects:
Human factors professions play two types of roles relating to the design
of equipment: 1) as actual members of a design team developing a new device
or evaluating and existing device and 2) as a researcher collecting and
analyzing data necessary to do (1) more effectively. Two of the sets of
projects deal with (1) and one deals with (2). The class will be divided
into three groups with one group on each of the sets of projects below.