Undergraduate Level Course: IE
IE 408: Cognitive Work Design
Design and evaluation of cognitive work, including the human/computer interface, visual displays, software design, and automated system monitoring, with emphasis on human performance.
L. Rothrock
IE 418: Human/Computer Interface Design
Design and evaluation of the human/computer interface, including human performance, visual displays, software design, and automated system monitoring.
L. Rothrock
IE 479: Human Centered Product Design and Innovation
Consumer product design for a global market, incorporating human factors principles and user desires in a multicultural perspective.
A. Freivalds
Graduate Level Courses: IE
IE 511: Experimental Design in Engineering
Statistical design and analysis of experiments in engineering; experimental models and experimental designs using the analysis of variance.
Instructors Vary
IE 522: Discrete Event Systems Simulation
The study of the fundamentals of discrete event simulation, including event scheduling, time advance mechanisms, random variate generation, and output analysis.
D. Medeiros
IE/EDSGN/ME 547 – Design for Human Variability
Students will learn the principles of how to incorporate an understanding of variability in human size, capability, and preference into the design of products and environments.
M. Parkinson
IE/EDSGN 548: Interaction Design
Integrative perspective on the types of techniques that can be used to analyze existing products and develop learn both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure user interactions and apply innovative principles to develop creative design ideas for future products.
S. Miller
IE/EDSGN 549: Design Decision Making
Students in this course will internalize the importance of information and decision-making in design; understand the complexities due to uncertain information, multi-person decision making, technology obsolescence, competitive priorities; become familiar with state-of-the-art methods and tools for design decision-making; and, demonstrate the application of this knowledge in the context of a collaborative design project.
J. Menold
IE 552: Mechanics of the Musculoskeletal System
Structure and biomechanics of bone, cartilage, and skeletal muscle; dynamics and control of musculoskeletal system models.
A. Freivalds
IE/BIOE 553: Engineering of Human Work
Physics and physiology of humans at work; models of muscle strength, dynamic movements; neural control; physical work capacity; rest allocation.
A. Freivalds
IE 557: Human-in-the-Loop Simulation
This course is designed to provide graduate students in engineering the capability to develop an interactive, real-time simulation and to create interfaces for an interactive simulation.
L. Rothrock
IE 558: Engineering of Cognitive Work
Information processing and decision making models of the human in the modern workplace, emphasizing visual inspection and other industrial applications.
L. Rothrock
IE/EDSGN 561: Data Mining Driven Design
The study and application of data mining/machine learning (DM/ML) techniques in multidisciplinary design.
C. McComb
IE 562: Expert Systems Design in Industrial Engineering
Methodological aspects of expert systems design and review of some existing systems with emphasis on manufacturing and industrial engineering.
S. Kumara
IE 582: Advanced Information Technology for Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Students will learn Advanced Information Technology concepts, tools and techniques for designing and implementing manufacturing systems.
S. Kumara
Undergraduate Level Courses: Non-IE
IST 331: Organization and Design of Information Systems: User and System Principles
Students will learn about Organization and Design of Information Systems: User and System Principles in interdisciplinary survey of topics related to the use and usability of information systems.
Variable instructors
IST 413: Usability Engineering
This course addresses activities in the system development process that ensure usability. It considers the emerging concept of usability, requirements gathering and analysis, activity design, information design, interaction design, documentation design, user testing and usability evaluation.
Variable instructors
IST 437: Digital Design and Innovation
This course introduces students to design thinking, user-driven innovation and user experience, and business model implementation issues for IT-driven innovation.
Variable instructors
Graduate Level Course: Non-IE
IST 520: Foundations of Human Centered Design
Students will study foundational theories in Human-Centered Interactions used for Human-Centered Design.
Jack Carroll