Human Systems Integration & Design
The ISE track in Human Systems Integration & Design will be of interest to students who are “people-oriented” and are interested in designing work and work systems that rely on and/or support human performance. Students interested in product design will also find this track valuable. All types of operations can benefit from improvements in Human Systems Integration & Design, including companies involved in:
- healthcare
- transportation
- energy management
- information management
- retail and financial systems
- manufacturing and production systems
This track in Human Systems Integration & Design focuses on strategies for improving productivity, quality, resilience and safety. In addition to general courses on human factors engineering and design, it includes courses concerned with occupational safety and health, as well as courses concerned with cognitive systems engineering.
This track requires students to complete a minimum of 15 credit hours.
Choose three courses (9 hours)
| Course Number | Credit Hours |
Course Name |
|---|---|---|
| ISE 5110 | 3 | Design of Engineering Experiments |
| ISE 5610 | 3 | Ergonomics in the Product Design Process |
| ISE 5620 | 3 | Risk Assessment Tools for Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders |
| ISE 5640 | 3 | Occupational Safety: Analysis and Design of Work Environments |
| MECHENG 5682.01 | 3 | Fundamentals of Product Design Engineering |
| ISE 5710 | 3 | Behind Human Error: Safety and Complex Systems |
| ISE 5740 | 3 | Cognitive Engineering Systems: Human-Centered Automation |
| ISE 5760 | 3 | Visual Analytics and Sensemaking |
| ISE 5820 | 3 | Systems Thinking in Engineering and Design |
| ISE 5870 | 3 | Resilience Engineering |
Minimum of 6 hours from the following elective options (See degree audit for full list)
Any ISE technical elective from this track (listed above)
Any ISE technical elective from another track
Any outside approved elective