AKTU Ergonomics & Workplace Design (BPI051) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 3rd Year
Ergonomics & Workplace Design BPI051
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Syllabus — Ergonomics & Workplace Design
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Course Outcomes
| Course Outcomes: The students will be able to | Bloom Taxonomy | |
| CO1 | Understand ergonomics, design principles for user-friendly systems, and factors influencing human performance and physical workload. | K 2 |
| CO2 | Understand the physiological principles, cognitive processing, mental workload, and factors influencing work-related musculoskeletal disorders. | K 2 |
| CO3 | Apply anthropometric principles to system design and understand human capabilities and limitations. | K 3 |
| CO4 | Evaluate occupational hazards & safety and job & environmental factors | K4 |
| CO5 | Apply ergonomics design principles to enhance performance, reduce fatigue, and improve human-computer interaction | K3 |
| CO6 | Design manufacturing workstations and tools. | K 5 |
| CO7 | Evaluate and measure sound, illumination, and occupational human vibration, and understand their effects on comfort, health, and performance in various tasks | K 4 |
Unit 1: Introduction (7-Hours)
Introduction to Ergonomics / Human Factors - overview and background; Design communication and ergonomics; Human-Machine system: Standard format for describing human-machine system, User friendly man machine environment system; Inter disciplinary nature of ergonomics; Modern ergonomics human performance – information processing – factors affecting human performance – physical workload and energy expenditure.
Unit 2: Human Physiology and Cognitive (8-Hours)
Physiological Principles: Sources of Energy, Nervous control of movements, structure of nervous system, Types of nervous system, Neurons, Action potential; Sodium potassium pump, innervations of muscles, Reflex-arc; Dynamics and static muscular work; Physiological (allowable limits and safety factors) and psycho sociological (behavior, cognitive issues, information processing and perception); Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorder, definition and Types of WMSDs, Factors affecting WMSDs; Cognitive processing such as perception, attention, learning, memory, and decision-making, information processing mental workload
Unit 3: Anthropometry and Workplace Design (8-Hours)
Introduction to Anthropometry and its application in design of system; Capabilities and limitations of people - physical (body structure, growth, anthropometry, biomechanics, and movement); Occupational hazards and safety, and environment factors affecting performance. Evaluation of facilities, environment, jobs and tasks, training methods and equipment, and user capabilities; Potential reduction of fatigue, errors, discomforts and unsafe acts; Ergonomics design principles and criteria, and checklist for ease and efficiency including Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI).
Unit 4: Workplace Design (8-Hours)
Manufacturing work-station design; determining work-station design parameters, Systematic approach for determining work-station design, determining work-station dimension. Tool evaluation and design:
Principles of tool design (General principles, Anatomical concern, and Single handle); Attributes of common industrial hand tools, Attributes of common industrial power tools, Tool evaluation check list.
Displays and controls, Ergonomic considerations in Visual Display Terminal (VDT) work station design and Office Design.
Unit V: Effect of Acoustic and Environmental Factors (8-Hours)
Sound and related studies: Definition, evaluation of noise, combining decibels. Levels and Spectra:
Sound power level, sound intensity level, numerical problems on sound its measurement, Illumination and its measurement.
Occupational Human Vibration: Characteristics of vibration, wholebody and hand-arm vibration, Effect of vibration on comfort, health and performance.
Studies related to the effect of Illumination, Heat and Indoor Air Quality on human performance of different types of tasks.
Reference Books
- R. S. Bridger, Introduction to Ergonomics, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995.
- M. S. Sanders and E. J. McCormick, Human Factors in Engineering and Design, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.
- C. D. Wicknes, S. E. Gordon and Y. Liu, An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, Longman, NY, 1997.
- D. Chakrabarti, Indian Anthropometric Dimensions for ergonomic design practice, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 1997
- J. Dul and B. Weerdmeester, Ergonomics for beginners a quick reference guide, Taylor & Francis, 1993. Semester – V: Departmental Elective – II Specialization – Manufacturing & Automation
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