As an introduction to the panel, “The Need for International Human Factors Engineering Education Programs”, this paper introduces the reasons why we should consider offering human factors engineering students international education experience and the barriers to doing so. The paper proposes common criteria and a scoring methodology for evaluating programs since they usually have quite varied components. The methodology is introduced to help the audience evaluate the three international human factors engineering education programs that will be described in the panel as compared to each other and to other existing international engineering education opportunities.
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