Establishing a Human Factors Career in the New Millennium: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to the seventh annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society career panel. This year, each panelist was asked to answer six questions related to careers now and in the future. Topics selected include: working environment, becoming a professional, skills and experiences.

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Teaching the future human factors and ergonomics professionals to solve practical problems

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e578692012-008 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Beth L. Blickensderfer ◽

Albert J. Boquet ◽

Noelle D. Brunelle ◽

James A. Pharmer ◽

Scott A. Shappell

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽

The Future

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Traveling to the Future: Human Factors and Ergonomics Integration, Simulation, Field Testing and Strategic Partners in Support of Heavy Vehicle Research

Procedia Manufacturing ◽

10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.294 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 1366-1373

Author(s):

David I. Gertman ◽

Zachary Spielman ◽

Jeffrey Brown ◽

Scott Wold

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Field Testing ◽

Heavy Vehicle ◽

Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽

The Future

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Considering the Future of Land Grant Ergonomics Education

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1541931218621083 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 359-363

Author(s):

Barrett S. Caldwell

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Factors ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Land Grant ◽

Public Higher Education ◽

Employment Skills ◽

Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽

College Going ◽

The Future ◽

Workforce Productivity

Current discussions of challenges and weaknesses of higher education are a source of tension in the early decades of the 21st Century. These discussions reflect the public role and impact of higher education in the early 20th Century with the growth of the land grand university model. Changing social dynamics regarding college-going populations, as well as agricultural and engineering innovations from 1900-20, help to provide context for the role of human factors and ergonomics training for public higher education and workforce productivity. Attempts to forecasting new models of higher education based on societal changes from 2000-20 are problematic, as suggested by agricultural changes from 1900 – 2000. The future of land grant (and human factors and ergonomics) education requirements are tied to our understanding of different historical models of higher education, and demands for matching employment skills and job prospects for new generations of economic, societal and technical challenges.

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