Course detail

Workshop - Ergonomics

FSI-YAEAcad. year: 2010/2011

This course provides students with more profound knowledge of the system man - machine - environment and its impact on the design in the scientific and technical context, with a special respect to utility, safety and hygiene of the system. Students’ work will be related to their "Workshop - diploma project"; it is not possible to study this course separately.
The output in the form of an ergonomical poster and computer visualization use the outcomes of simulation from the ergonomical software JACK.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students demonstrate the knowledge of ergonomic aspects of design and its presentation.

Prerequisites

This course is a follow-up to the course in Ergonomics lectured to 3rd year students. Knowledge of ergonomic problems and ergonomic principles used in design is assumed. The aim is to apply all acquired knowledge of a human and its measurements, impacts, psychological attributes, etc. and of a machine and the environment. Students have to be able to solve interactions in the human-machine and human-environment microsystems.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: Attendance at exercises, meeting assigned projects deadlines. Attitude to given topic, completeness and quality are evaluated.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on projects. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course objective is to compose the ergonomic part of a complex design project which reflects all experience acquired during the study of Industrial design in mechanical engineering. Students will be made familiar with with the topic and the correctly define the mutual relation between a man-machine-environment.
For creation of the drawings the students use the outputs of previous simulations of the "human-product" relationship using the unique ergonomical software JACK. The outputs are ergonomical posters, chaper about egronomy of the product in the thesis and a computer visualization of the product.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The attendance in workshop education is controlled. Students are supposed to work on assigned projects and wait for consultation, unless a lecturer set up any other individual plan. Unexcused absence and absence greater than 50% /including excused lessons / may jeopardise awarding the graded course-unit credit.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

LORKO, Martin a Zuzana JAMBRICHOVÁ. Ergonómia. Prešov: Technická univerzita v Košiciach, 1998. ISBN 80-7099-392-8.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N3901-2 Master's

    branch M-PDS , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory