Notes for Teachers

Abstract

The philosophy of this book is that the subject of ergonomics and human factors is best taught to engineering students by letting them exercise their skills practically and develop an analytical eye when faced with a real work environment improvement situation – as opposed to learning through rote memorizing and formal exams. Ideally, we encourage teachers to set up the course curriculum to apply the knowledge and topics in this book to a workplace re-design case. This may be a fictive or “real” workplace (meaning tangible and observable; could be in a real industrial workplace or in a lab), where