Specialty Area 4: Human Factors Engineering

Three Core Prerequisites or Equivalents, if not completed yet:

  • ISE 201 - Engineering Statistics, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit)
  • ISE 140 - Operations Planning and Control, or Equivalent (Not for Graduate Credit)
  • ISE 167 - System Simulation, or Equivalent

Four Core Courses

  • ISE 230 - Advanced Operations Research I
  • ISE 235 - Quality Assurance and Reliability
  • ISE 240 – Analytics for Systems Engineering
  • ISE 298 - M.S. Project or Comprehensive Exam. or ISE 299 - MS Thesis

Four Specialty Course

One Required Course:

  • ISE 210 - Human Factors/Ergonomics (including Design of Work Methods)

Three out of the Following Five Courses:

  • ISE 202 - Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments
  • ISE 212 - Human Factors Experiments
  • ISE 215 - Usability Evaluation and Testing
  • ISE 217 - Human Computer Interaction
  • ISE 219 - Research in Human Computer Interaction

Two Electives

All Four Specialty Areas:

  • Two graduate ISE courses in other specialty areas/See Graduate Advisor