Human Factors Psychology

Overview

Because the field of human factors is vital to successful product and system design, there is great diversity among the industries in which human factors professionals establish their careers. 

Because Embry-Riddle is closely associated with the aviation/aerospace industry, many of our graduates launch their careers within these industries. Other career paths include employment within tech organizations, such as Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft, top gaming organizations, and healthcare.

The technological aspect of nearly all the programs at Embry-Riddle puts students in an environment where they can develop and test the skills they learn. Many advances that have entered mainstream society have come from aviation and aerospace, where human factors holds a key role.

Students of the Human Factors Psychology program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are educated in content and techniques of human factors research, including statistical and quantitative procedures, experimental design, survey methods, computer techniques, and other research methodologies.

About Human Factors Psychology at the Daytona Beach

Students fascinated with the challenges involved in optimizing the performance of both humans and their technology would fit into the Bachelor of Science in Human Factors Psychology degree program. In this program, students learn how to integrate an understanding of human psychology with systems design to help create technologies that are more intuitive to use and make people more effective. Thus graduates enter the workplace as human factors specialists prepared to help make this increasingly technology-driven world more human-friendly.

About Human Factors Psychology at the Prescott

The Bachelor of Science degree in Human Factors Psychology, housed in the Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences, emphasizes human behavior, ergonomics, and human capabilities. This program equips students with the capacity to design, conduct, and apply human factors research to the design of simple and complex systems. The goal of the program is to educate and graduate professionals who are able to begin immediate employment as human factors specialists or to continue their education in graduate school.