Master of Science in Human Factors

Northeastern University

In the Master of Science, MS, Human Factors degree at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, you’ll learn human-centered engineering. Master’s Human Factors students will build on their engineering, science, or mathematics knowledge with an understanding of human capabilities and limitations to design products and systems for safe, efficient, and comfortable human use. A growing and important technical professional field, human factors, including ergonomics, is considered essential to improving business performance, decision-making, and market competitiveness. The key sectors demanding human factors professionals include transportation, healthcare, robotics, manufacturing, computer, consumer products, social, and organizational and military issues.Discover opportunities to improve systems, processes, and enterprises through human factors knowledgeApply human factors methods to solving complex problems involving human factors and ergonomics issuesWork with technology teams to design and build complex human factors systemsUse tools and methods for human factors and ergonomics to generate analyses and reportsCreate integrated views of human factors from multiple sources of an enterpriseUnderstand and explain results of human factors studies, Design and develop human factors projects

College of Engineering