Department of Industrial Engineering
The University at Buffalo has a long history of quality education and research in the area of Human Factors. The program at UB is one of the few Human Factors graduate programs offered within an engineering school to be accredited by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. We conduct sponsored research funded by agencies such as the Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, as well as national and local corporations. We have an active student body, as evidenced by our award winning student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The Human Factors program is offered by the Department of Industrial Engineering, which was recently ranked 18th nationally in both the Gourman Report of Graduate Programs, and the National Research Council Report on Research and Doctorate programs. Graduating students regularly take human factors positions in academic institutions, federal laboratories and national corporations.The Industrial Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo has always seen its role as integrating human factors into the broader context of designing effective work systems. Our research domains extend from aviation, to manufacturing, to service industries. We often work in teams with faculty and students from our other programs, such as operations research and production systems, to solve problems beyond the expertise of any single discipline. Our interdisciplinary work not only solves applied problems, but also enriches our research base. At UB you will have the opportunity to work on problems of data fusion, decision-making, quality engineering, and rehabilitation, as well as more traditional problems in display design, occupational ergonomics, or human-computer interaction.
Program Information
- The Industrial Engineering
Department at the University at Buffalo offers two graduate degrees with
concentrations in Human Factors: A Master of Science and a Ph. D. Both
programs require completion of a core set of Human Factors courses, breadth
classes in Industrial Engineering, and a research experience. M.S. students
complete a thesis, while Ph.D. students complete a core examination after
completion of course work, an advanced examination to demonstrate preparedness
for research, a defense of proposal, and a defense of a Ph.D. dissertation.
In addition to Human Factors, the department offers M. Eng., M. S., and Ph.D. degrees with concentrations in Production Systems and Operations Research, and a B. S. in Industrial Engineering. There are currently eighteen faculty and lecturers in the department.
Financial aid in the form
of teaching and research assistantships, with tuition waivers, are available
for qualified students.
- Ann M. Bisantz, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997; Cognitive engineering, human-machine systems, human decision-making. E-mail: bisantz@eng.buffalo.edu. Complete Web Page.
- Colin G. Drury, Professor; Ph. D. Birmingham, 1968. Human factors in aviation maintenance, industrial ergonomics, human errors, quality systems, human factors audits. E-mail: drury@eng.buffalo.edu. Complete Web Page.
- Victor Paquet, Assistant Professor; Sc.D., University of Massachusettes at Lowell, 1998; Industrial ergonomics, occupational safety, musculoskeletal epidemiology, measurement methods. E-mail: vpaquet@eng.buffalo.edu. Complete Web Page.
- The
Department of Industrial Engineering has numerous computer facilities and
research labs available to support graduate student education, including
a human-computer experimentation lab equipped with networked Pentium II
computers and printers, a multi-source information fusion laboratory equipped
with NT computers and SUN workstations, a visual performance laboratory
with equipment for video data capture and analysis, various equipment for
the performance of field ergonomics studies, and a SUN workstation laboratory.
Facilities for experimentation in work physiology and biomechanicsinclude
EMG, force measurement, and video monitoring equipment, electronic goniometers,
and biomechanical analysis software. Numerous small laboratories are available
to be configured as needed for individual student research space.
- Interpretation of instructions: Effect on work performance
- Human Factors Models of Service Quality
- Predicting body part discomfort given OWAS
- Multi-modal displays: Interaction and Design Issues
- Foundations for an Empirically determined scale of trust in computerized systems: distinguishing concepts and types of trust
- Aiding Dental Training using Lens Model Based Feedback
- Model-based Interface Design for Heterogeneous Expert Users
- Effect of Display Format on the Utilization of Uncertain Information
- Studies of Human Performance in Aided, Adversarial Decision-making
- Human Errors in Statistical Process Control
- Effects of Inspection Checklists on Human Performance
- Effectiveness of Patient Lifting Aids in a Medical Environment
- Ergonomics and Quality in Assembly Work
- Binocular Fusion/Rivalry as an aid in computer-based search
- Special Topics in Human Factors
- Human Factors Research Methods web-site
- Human Information Processing
- Human Factors in Safety web-site
- Socio-technical Systems
- Human-computer Interaction
- Physiological Foundations of Human Factors
- Human Factors Research Laboratory
- Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
- Human Reliability and System Safety
- Occupational Biomechanics
- Physical Human Modeling in Design
- Course descriptions for
these and other IE courses can be found in the graduate manual linked to
the IE Home
Page.
- UB Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- UB Industrial Engineering Home Page
- UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- UB Home Page
- More about Buffalo
- Mailing Address:
342 Bell Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260