USER CENTRED ENGINEERING DESIGN

Undergraduate

User-centred design offers a powerful and systematic approach to understanding users and their needs and delivering effective design solutions in many domains including engineering, technology and health sciences. This course will introduce students to a variety of principles, practices and research methods for designing, developing and evaluating products, systems and solutions based on the users’ needs, and context. Students will learn human factors, ergonomics, cognitive and perceptual psychology principles for designing products, information displays and complex systems. Students will be exposed to various subjective and objective metrics and methods for evaluations and usability studies. Students will also be introduced to apply user-centred design for developing sustainable products and systems. Cross-level listed with SDE 7031. Objectives, assessment and outcomes will be commensurate with the undergraduate level. PREREQUISITE: Permission of the instructor Three lecture hours per week