Design and Human Factors
Our department has a long history in product design. The Human Factors program is one of the oldest undergraduate programs in the country and concentrates on designing and testing inventions for a specific client. The research here is split primarily into two areas: medical devices and educational technologies. Our research in medical devices has led to a full usability testing facility. On the educational technologies side, our research has focused on understanding how the brain learns to engineer (collaborating with the School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Education) and leveraging that understanding to develop new educational tools, in both hardware and software. We then collaborate with companies like LEGO Education, National Instruments, Texas Instruments, and others to put these technologies into classrooms for testing.
- Daniel Hannon - Human Factors, Airspace Systems
- James Intriligator - Human Factors, Perception, Consumer Psychology
- Erica Kemmerling - Medical device design
- Gary Leisk - Machine Design, Non-Destructive Testing
- Douglas Matson - Solidification Processes, Thermal Manufacturing, Machine Design
- Chris Rogers - Musical Instrument Design, Educational Product Design, Engineering Education
- Deborah Sunter - Energy policy and design
- Holly Taylor - Human Factors, spatial cognition and comprehension
- Kristen Wendell - Educational Technology Design and Engineering Education
- Robert White - Micro- and Nano- electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) design and fabrication, MEMS sensors
- Michael Wiklund - Human Factors