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Integrating Human Aspects into the Engineering Curriculum

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Most engineers get no formal training in Human Factors.  Yet humans are intimately involved in the manufacture, installation, routine use, maintenance, and decommissioning of every engineering design. Most engineering design failures are related to a lack of understanding and attention to human abilities, needs, and limitations in the engineering design process.

This project is establishing an approach, using the Six Sigma methodology, to identify opportunities for undergraduate engineering design training that includes attention to human aspects and human interaction with the systems they are designing. This project is supported by the FEAS Dean's Teaching Fund.

Associated Research Themes:

  • Organizational Design and Change Management