Graduate Certificate in
Human Factors

About the Graduate Certificate in Human Factors

As technology — such as automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual/augmented reality — continues to advance rapidly, the interactions between humans and systems become increasingly complex.

The Graduate Certificate in Human Factors equips you with the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze human performance capabilities, limitations and errors in various industries and applications. This certificate emphasizes the importance of optimizing these interactions to improve safety, security, performance, usability and overall user experience in sociotechnical interfaces across different sectors.

Student Learning Outcomes

You will have the opportunity to learn the following while studying for an online Human Factors graduate certificate:

• Evaluate human cognitive/psychological capabilities and limitations comprehensively across multiple human factors and ergonomics domains.
• Comprehensively evaluate human physiological capabilities and limitations across multiple human factors and ergonomics domains.
• Apply principles of ergonomic and bioengineering as related to human-machine design and performance.