A FRAMEWORK FOR EVAL EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY UATION HUMAN FACTORS CURRICULA

摘要

Curriculum reviews are performed to provide grounds for adjustments necessary due to changes in st student ent enrollment, teaching faculty, and goals and objectives of programs that have a substantial human fa factors tors component. This task is arguably quite difficult due to the very broad spectrum of the human factors disc disci- ipline and lack of widely accepted standar pline standards or criteria for education in human factors. This paper d ds describes scribes a framework for review of undergraduate human factors curricula using the program at the Unive University of sity Illinois as an example. The framework was implemented as a hierarchical relational da database with a web tabase interface. Populated with either existing curriculum or desired courses to be developed it allows for rapid terface. Analysis of overlap between individual courses, missing important human factors topics, and determ determination nation prerequisite knowledge f for these, and a rigorous and formal way of keeping human factors curricula or aligned with explicitly stated goals for the programs.