ERGONOMICS - HUMAN FACTORS - USER INTERFACE DESIGN - USABILITY TESTING

Educational Programs

Internet Links for Institutions Offering Degree Programs.

Professional Degrees

This page is intended for those people wishing to attain a professional degree in Human Factors, Ergonomics, or Human-Computer Interface.

Other pages on this site discuss each discipline in greater detail.

Our Role

Usernomics can assist your company in making your products easy to learn, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and marketable. Our User Interface Design and Usability Testing professionals design both hardware and software products. Their experience covers a wide range of products including web-based and application software, consumer products, communication systems, and vehicles such as automobiles and aircraft.

We can also assist your company to make your workplace safe, efficient, and in compliance. Our Ergonomics Engineers apply a rigorous and systematic technique to ensure a hazard-free and worker-safe environment. We evaluate, design, and train your people to create an ongoing active safety program in your company. Our experience covers a wide range of workplace environments including the office, manufacturing floor, warehouse, and vehicles.

Internet Links

We have had numerous requests for how to get more training in our various disciplines. This section should serve as a good starting point for finding programs leading to advanced degrees.

As a service to our professional community, we are pleased to bring you a great starting place for locating information about each of our disciplines.

Be sure to check the following organizations for a more inclusive list of programs:

• The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society offers a complete list of university programs in Human Factors & Ergonomics for the U.S. and Canada.
• The International Ergonomics Society offers a complete list of university programs in Ergonomics worldwide.
• The American Society of Biomechanics offers a complete list of university programs in Biomechanics for the U.S. and Canada.

The following institutions are a selection of those offering degree programs in:

• Human Factors / Engineering Psychology
• Workplace Ergonomics / Safety
• User Interface Design / HCI

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Human Factors

• Academy of Art University - Industrial Design College offers on campus and online industrial design degree courses in product design, toy design, furniture design, transporation design and more.
• California State University, Long Beach Psychology Department offers a B.S. and M.S. in Human Factors.
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University offers a B.S. and M.S. in Human Factors.
• George Mason University The Department of Psychology has an M.S. and Ph.D. program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Human-Machine Systems Laboratory at MIT offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• Mississippi State University The Psychology Department offers a degree in Cognitive Science with coursework in Human Factors.
• New Mexico State University The Psychology Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Engineering.
• North Carolina State University offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Engineering.
• Northeastern University offers a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering.
• Ohio State University offers a M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Factors / Ergonomics.
• Old Dominion University Psychology Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• Purdue University Industrial Engineering Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• Penn State The Industrial Engineering Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• San Jose State University The Industrial Engineering Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Interdisciplinary Program in Human Factors and specialties in aviation offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.
• University of Iowa The Industrial Engineering Department offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• University of Massachusetts The Human Performance Laboratory at UMass offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• University of South Dakota The Psychology Department offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• University of Toronto The Industrial Engineering Department offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Ergonomics & Experimental Psychology.
• Virginia Tech offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• Texas Tech The Psychology Department offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• Wright State University offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.

Workplace Ergonomics / Biomechanics

• Cornell University M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Ergonomics and Human Factors.
• Delft University advanced degrees in Dynamic Anthropometry, Usage Evaluation Methodology, and Design for Healthy Environments,
• Harvard School of Public Health several different degree programs in related areas - M.S. and Ph.D.
• San Jose State University M.S. in Ergonomics and Human Factors.
• University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley M.S. and Ph.D. in Ergonomics and Biomechanics.
• University of Louisville Center for Industrial Ergonomics is part of the Department of Industrial Engineering and offers an M.S. and Ph.D.
• University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial & Operations Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Environmental Health Sciences.
• New York University Graduate Program of Ergonomics and Biomechanics offers M.S and Ph.D. degrees.
• North Carolina State University Department of Industrial Engineering offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in related fields.
• University of Nottingham MSc in Applied Ergonomics by Distance Learning.
• University of Toronto Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.

User Interface Design / Human-Computer Interaction

• Carnegie Mellon University The Human Computer Interaction Institute offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs.
• California State University, Northridge The Psychology Department offers a B.A and M.A. in Human Factors Applied Experimental Psychology. Emphasis is chosen by each student and currently has strong support for Human-Computer Interaction, Interface Design, Instructional Technologies, and Medical Error.
• Carleton University Human Oriented Technology Lab offers M.S and Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction.
• Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute offers M.S and Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction.
• Catholic University of America Psychology Department offers M.S and Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Applied-Experimental Psychology.
• DePaul University offers an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction.
• Georgia Institute of Technology offers an M.S. in human-computer interaction.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Cognitive Science offers M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Machine Reasoning.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Language, Literature, and Communication offers an M.S. degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
• Rice University Interdisciplinary Graduate Program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors.
• University College London Interaction Centre offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.
• University of Washington the Human Interface Technology Lab is affiliated with the school of Engineering that has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs.

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