Intro to Human Factors Engineering and How You Can Teach It
Teach your students the importance of human factors engineering with this free project for engineering students. Grading rubric included. Download now.
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Human factors engineering is a discipline that centers product development around the end-user: people.
When designers use human factors engineering to develop products, they need to consider humans’ capabilities, limitations, characteristics, wants, needs, and concerns all along the way.
Help your students practice human factors engineering principles with this free downloadable project!
Through this activity, your students will walk through the engineering design process while applying key human factors engineering approaches including:
- User observation
- User research
- User feedback
- And more!
Bonus: To save you time, we included a ready-to-use grading rubric!