COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ERGONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5013 ERGONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BILGE BILGEN

Offered to

Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to provide students with a level of expertise in work measurement and design which will allow them to enhance the productivity of products and processes. Provide industrial engineers with additional tools to better design jobs and the workplace, in terms of productivity while maintaining the health and safety of the worker.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to describe the importance of ergonomic assessment and job safety
2   Ability to describe how the demands on the worker when performing a job can be assessed from an ergonomics perspective
3   Ability to describe how the equipment used when performing a job can be assessed from an ergonomics perspective
4   Ability to describe how the information used when performing a job can be assessed from an ergonomics perspective
5   Ability to describe how the physical environment related to a job can be assessed from an ergonomics perspective

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Problem solving tools
3 Importance of ergonomics and job safety
4 Operation analysis
5 Manual work design
6 Work place, equipment and tool design
7 MIDTERM EXAM
8 Work environment design
9 Design of cognitive work
10 Macro Ergonomics
11 Information technology and ergonomics
12 Physiology of work and biomechanics
13 Physiology of work and biomechanics
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Freivalds A., Niebel B. Niebel s Methods, Standards, and Work Design , 2009, Mc Graw Hill.
Yardımcı kaynaklar: Groover, M. P., Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement, and Management of Work , 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The presentations which are prepared by using books, articles and proceedings as well as class board will be used in the scope of the course programme.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: bilge.bilgen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 164

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1444444
LO.24545
LO.3444544
LO.454
LO.54444

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