Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel
Start Date
29-4-1998 8:00 AM
Description
The Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) Project is being used at FIU as a tool for improving the transmission of engineering education. This use has two goals. The first is to use exciting projects to inspire and motivate students in the pursuit of their engineering degrees. Excitement about education has been shown to captivate a greater percentage of a student’s attention, leading to better learning. The second is to enhance the visibility of NASA projects with future engineering professionals. This can lead to a more widespread appreciation of the needs of the aerospace industry within the general community of engineers. It may also encourage engineering students to pursue NASA related careers.
CLCS-related units have been included at FIU in several ways. A major milestone of the CLCS project is an evaluation of four console workstation designs. This evaluation requires several detailed analyses to assess postures, productivity, and layout. In a Work Design and Ergonomics course, CLCS has been used as a case study through which to study these job evaluation methods.
Another major initiative of the CLCS project is to evaluate the software development process in CLCS for the presence of user inclusion in the design operation. This involves working with users of the software systems in CLCS to gauge their requirements and expectations prior to software development and then involving those users in formal usability testing of the software throughout the design cycle. User inclusion from the perspective of CLCS is being used as a case study in a course called Cognitive Engineering in Human-Computer Interaction.
Paper Session II-D - Checkout and Launch Control System as a Case Study for Human Factors Education
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel
The Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) Project is being used at FIU as a tool for improving the transmission of engineering education. This use has two goals. The first is to use exciting projects to inspire and motivate students in the pursuit of their engineering degrees. Excitement about education has been shown to captivate a greater percentage of a student’s attention, leading to better learning. The second is to enhance the visibility of NASA projects with future engineering professionals. This can lead to a more widespread appreciation of the needs of the aerospace industry within the general community of engineers. It may also encourage engineering students to pursue NASA related careers.
CLCS-related units have been included at FIU in several ways. A major milestone of the CLCS project is an evaluation of four console workstation designs. This evaluation requires several detailed analyses to assess postures, productivity, and layout. In a Work Design and Ergonomics course, CLCS has been used as a case study through which to study these job evaluation methods.
Another major initiative of the CLCS project is to evaluate the software development process in CLCS for the presence of user inclusion in the design operation. This involves working with users of the software systems in CLCS to gauge their requirements and expectations prior to software development and then involving those users in formal usability testing of the software throughout the design cycle. User inclusion from the perspective of CLCS is being used as a case study in a course called Cognitive Engineering in Human-Computer Interaction.
Comments
Session Chairman: Gregg Buckingham
Session Organizer: Tim Kotnour