A project, aiming to improve the undergraduate laboratory course in human factors, is ongoing at Stevens. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and Stevens. Six instructional modules are either developed or under development. The modules use computers to first give students a direct hands-on experience of critical concepts and phenomena, and then have them infer design criteria from simulated data. The computer tools appear to qualitatively change the course from one of passive absorbtion of human factors concepts and principles to active development of these concepts, principles and design criteria.
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