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Daytona Beach Campus - College of Arts & Sciences

Department of Human Factors and Systems

Mission Statement

Human Factors

 

The Human Factors and Systems Department is teaching, service, and research-oriented, and focuses on both traditional and emerging areas of human factors and systems in aviation and aerospace. The department is intended to become a community of teacher-scholars. It is expected that, if one uses the ERAU model of a faculty member's time being divided into five parts at the present time typically one part service and four parts teaching, the members of this department would, for most terms, have one to three fifth's of their salary carried by sponsored research.

The program emphasis is on the interdisciplinary integration of theory, data and methodology of the relevant disciplines, e.g., experimental psychology, computer science, engineering, aeronautical science, and human factors. The curriculum stresses the interdisciplinary integration of knowledge, theory, and tools of relevant areas particularly focusing in the following three major areas:

  1. theoretical models and quantitative research methodology associated with the behavioral sciences, computer and aeronautical sciences, and engineering disciplines;
  2. the application of knowledge about processes relevant to the development of aerospace systems, interfaces, and work environments; and
  3. the methods and tools that human factors and systems engineering applies during system analysis, design, and evaluation.

In all cases emphasis is on the relevance of principles of total system performance, while including a focus on human performance. The Department of Human Factors and Systems provides:

  • Excellence in teaching a curriculum that emphasizes the development of critical thinking as well as analytical and methodological skills
  • A comprehensive education which prepares students to make significant contributions in their chosen career field.
  • An atmosphere that nurtures intellectual, ethical, personal, and professional growth of our students, faculty, and staff.
  • Opportunities for hands-on and practical experience through laboratory and industry involvement.
  • Innovative research programs with government, military, and industry partners.

©  2003 Department of Human Factors and Systems, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.