Integrating creativity and human factors in the design of engineering curriculums

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Industrial Engineering

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volume

824

First Page

649

Last Page

652

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Engineers are expected to design systems and products for human use. However, the curriculums of most engineering courses do not include a course on human factors. Thus, engineers design products and systems considering only the technical aspects. This results in usability problems and poor performance in the market. This paper discusses some of the problems in designing buildings and workplace environments such as lack of thermal comfort, excessive illumination, poor layout, confusing design of controls, etc. A framework for integrating human factors in designing built environments will be proposed that will include a system for various engineering disciplines to communicate and consider the needs of the users at different stages of the design process.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_68

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