Human Factors and Ergonomics is the study of how people interact with the systems engineers design. The statewide description is unusually specific: human interaction with workspaces and process design, including anthropometry of tools and workspaces, human cognitive loading in process design, the basics of workplace health and safety including the role of regulatory agencies such as OSHA, and the process of analysis and improvement of the ergonomics of a workspace for both manufacturing and service sectors.
⚠ Note the last clause. This is not only a factory subject — the service sector is named explicitly, and in Florida that means hospitals, hotels, call centres, distribution and theme parks as much as it means manufacturing.
Carried by Florida Polytechnic University alone at this number, 3 credits.
Named on the Industrial Engineer career path. It leads into ergonomics and safety roles, and it is directly useful in manufacturing, warehousing, healthcare and any operation with a workers-compensation exposure. ⚠ It is also the course that most often prevents a process improvement from failing: a change that ignores the people doing the work does not survive contact with them.
This course is offered by Florida Polytechnic University and by no other Florida public institution. Two things follow, and both matter more than they sound.
First, this guide describes that institution’s course, not a statewide consensus, because there is no consensus to describe. Second, the statewide SCNS record was almost certainly written by the same institution — so where the two agree, that is one source quoted twice rather than independent corroboration. Nothing here should be read as more strongly established than a single department’s practice.
⚠ On transfer, expect to send the syllabus. A receiving institution that does not offer the number has nothing to match against, so the decision will be made on content and hours.
Florida Polytechnic publishes its catalogue on a platform that does not serve course content to automated retrieval, so this guide is written from the statewide SCNS record and from standard practice in the field rather than from the institution’s own text. It should be read as a description of the subject as Florida defines it, and confirmed against the catalogue before you rely on any detail.
Human factors is a mature and required part of industrial engineering everywhere; ABET programmes cover it. That only one Florida institution uses this number reflects Florida’s numbering practice, not the standing of the subject. Look for it under another number rather than concluding your programme omits it.
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