A Service Learning Case Study for the Ergonomics Classroom

Stanley, Laura; Hoyt, Tawny

doi:10.1037/e578902012-108

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“…The fall 2010 and fall 2011 course ABET outcome assessment tool was different from the Project ABET assessment. The course ABET outcome was implemented across all of the IE courses in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at MSU and only engineering students were to respond in one of four ways: strongly disagree, disagree, agree, or strongly agree to the course's applicable ABET outcomes (a) through (k) (Table ; Stanley & Hoyt, ). Not all ABET outcomes apply for each IE course, and in Table , the specific applicable ABET outcomes for the S‐L course are noted.…”

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“…In fall 2010 structured student reflections were completed in three journal activities where students responded to open‐ended questions (Table ; Stanley & Hoyt, ). The questions asked students to connect their previous experiences to the current S‐L project experiences as well as explain their understanding of the context they worked in with the S‐L experience.…”

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“…Sierra, Benne, and Fisk () described an ergonomic psychology course in which students applied the human factors knowledge they learned in the class to a real‐world project at a zoo. In the past 2 years, Stanley has contributed two articles about using service learning projects in an IE ergonomics course (Stanley & Hoyt, ; Stanley, Page, & Plumb, ). Service learning (S‐L) is a method of teaching in which students apply skills they learn in a course to a community organization (educational institutions, nonprofit, or tax‐exempt organizations) that has identified a needed service (Oakes, ).…”

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Ergonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Course

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The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the Engineer of 2020, an engineering education initiative, have recommended that engineering students be provided with opportunities to participate in real‐world projects to supply them with the skills they will need in the workplace. Service learning is a pedagogical approach where students apply skills they learn in a classroom to a real‐world problem identified by a community organization. In 2009, a service learning project was introduced in an undergraduate Ergonomics Industrial Engineering course composed of engineering and nonengineering students at Montana State University (MSU). Its integration and development in the existing course required creating a detailed project description and finding a partner organization. Students worked with clients or staff at the partner organization to develop ergonomic solutions for workplace health and safety issues and manufacturing productivity. At the end‐of‐semester presentations, the community partners, instructor, and other students assessed each solution's effectiveness. These assessments found that students, compared to the partner's feedback, undervalued their prototypes with regard to how they improved worker and process efficiency, and they overvalued their solution's creativity, cost, and implementation feasibility. In addition, the service learning course's technical and professional skills ranked above the average ABET course outcomes of MSU's Industrial Engineering fall courses. This demonstrates how the service learning project and the intended goals from ABET and Engineer 2020 come together—service learning exposes students to real‐world situations that better prepare and inform them of the skills that will be needed after graduation.

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“…Several HCI courses successfully used group design projects (Vat, 2001;Weinberg & Stephen, 2002;Rosson, Carroll & Rodi;Koppelman & Dijk, 2006), and two courses conclude with high fidelity prototypes (Plimer & Amor, 2006;Brown & Pastel, 2009). HF courses using group projects are also successful in engineering (Stanley & Tawny, 2011;Moody, 2011) and psychology (Beer, McBride, Adams & Rogers, 2011). Group projects are successful because they simulate industrial practices and make students responsible for their own learning.…”

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Teaching Human Factors to Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Students

Pastel¹,

Brown²,

Woller-Carter³

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Human factors (HF) is not a subject traditionally taught in the Computer Science (CS) curriculum. The traditional CS curriculum focuses on the computer (the machine) and the programs for the machine. Because the faculty was not introduced to HF in their education, studying users has no role in their discipline. Undergraduate CS students are more receptive to new ideas and consequently do not define their discipline as rigidly. Nevertheless, they typically chose to study CS because of their interest in the technology and the machines. Another challenge to introducing HF to the CS curriculum is that there is no space in the program for another course. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an existing course in most CS curricula that can be leveraged to expose CS undergraduates to HF concepts. The traditional HCI course focused primarily on the technology and implementation of graphical user interfaces. Only recently has design, specifically user centered design, been taught in CS HCI courses.This paper describes combining undergraduate and graduate HCI courses that expose CS students to HF. Students in the undergraduate HCI course design and implements group projects, consisting of smart phone applications (apps), and the graduate students evaluate and test the apps. The challenges of introducing HF to CS students and principles for overcoming them are explained, along with the interactions between the undergraduate and graduate students.

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“…The faculty, along with numerous members of the IAC have created projects for the revised courses. Several of the projects that were design-based are similar in scope to what others have done in HF/E courses where students are given a project and tasked with designing solutions with assistance/guidance from the faculty member (Stanley & Hoyt, 2011). These projects include: usability studies, safety analyses, and ergonomic evaluations.…”

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Curriculum Development for HF/E Graduate Students

Pickens

Benden

2013

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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As a department, we were tasked with completely revising a HF/E and safety curriculum that had not been thoroughly revised or updated for years. We were producing students that could recite the same information all HF/E professionals know by heart and is the basis for our profession, but were having trouble finding gainful employment upon graduation. Our task was to update the curriculum in such a way as to still impart the knowledge and skills needed by HF/E professionals, but in a way that tailors that skill set and knowledge to something they can apply in an industry setting based on first-hand experience. Results three years post review shows students graduating with multiple job offers and advancing in their career paths at rates faster than their peers.

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A Service Learning Case Study for the Ergonomics Classroom

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Ergonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Course

Ergonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Course

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