IE 6500 — Human Performance
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional
Explores a wide range of human-machine systems. Focuses on human performance, human system integration, evaluation, and applications and how they can improve productivity, efficiency, safety, and quality of work life. Involves designing of machines, operations, jobs, and work environments in systems so that they are compatible with human capabilities, characteristics, and limitations. Discusses a variety of human-machine systems and interactions, including transportation, healthcare, human-computer, human-robot, consumer products, and service industries.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 2 | 16 | 60 | 27% | 22.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 23 | 40 | 57% | 17.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 27 | 40 | 68% | 13.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 11% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: async (89% of sections), T (11% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Yingzi Lin (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (IE course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All IE courses · Plan it at numap.app