IE 7315 — Human Factors Engineering
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fallBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional
Offers students an opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to recognize and analyze existing or potential human factors problems and to identify, design, and possibly implement feasible solutions. Includes introduction to human factors and ergonomics; engineering anthropometry and biomechanics; physiology related to human factors and workstation design; cognition and information processing; decision making, attention, and workload; human error and accidents; human-machine interface design; controls and displays; and human factors applications in transportation, aerospace, consumer product design, and so forth.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 2 | 29 | 139 | 21% | 55.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 34 | 99 | 34% | 65.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 22 | 99 | 22% | 77.0 |
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 19% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 19%
Common patterns: async (81% of sections), TF (19% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- 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