Human Factors Specialists'Education and Utilization Results of a Survey (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A Telephone Survey of Human Factors Specialists
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2. Do you supervise any people who perform human factors activities?
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Is it aerospace, communications, computers, industrial processes, health and safety, land vehicles or transportation, ships, or something else? (Accept up to two answers.)
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% 89 16. Do you consider yourself to be a human factors specialist or something else?
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18-8. Perform human reliability analyses?
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18-12. Prepare or review design drawings for conformance to human factors specifications?
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18-44. Perform human reliability analyses?
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Is it mainly in human factors, behavioral science, engineering, business, some other science, or something else? (Allow for more than one answer.)
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Could you give me the names of the human factors people you interact with on the job?
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TELEPHONE SURVEY 24b. Was it Less than $70,000, or, More than $70,000 (SKIP TO Q.24d)
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26a. Do you do any human factors consulting for payment in addition to your main job?
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Formal education...... Continuing education.
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People 30a. Have you hired any new human factors personnel in the past six months?
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People 99 36. Could your unit generate additional projects if you had additional human factors personnel (not counting any people you have mentioned)
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4Za. Are there topics in human factors university degree programs that you feel are not being taught or not being taught well enough?
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::: :: 51. How well did your formal education prepare you for your first human factors job?
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52a. Respondent received training in this topic in his/her formal education Yes = 1 No= 2 526# (~ ~0 `'`.~, {~ Q.52A FOR THOSE WHO ...
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Manual control theory (26) Analytical models (such as signal detection theory, decision theory, GOMS)
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Handicapped APPENDIX A 53. In the past five years, have you taken any human factors related continuing education courses?
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61. FOR EACH ASSOCIATION MENTIONED: In the past five years, have you ever attended any of the annual meetings of (association)
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106 65. IF YES: What are their names?
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Appendix B Mail-In Questionnaire on Graduate Human Factors Programs
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is the human factors program currently affiliated?
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5. What graduate degree programs do you currently offer?
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3 13a. Is practical experience required for this degree?
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l9b. Are these dropouts mainly doing human factors work or something else?
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23b. What needs does your human factors program have in the way of additional laboratories, library facilities, or equipment?
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Human factors consulting area h. Outside grants or contracts Yes No [ANSWER i IF "YES" TO h]
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30. What is the total number of students currently enrolled in all of your human factors programs?
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35a. Do you have any absolute requirements for admission, such as minimum grade point average, GRE score, or specific undergraduate degrees or courses taken?
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2 43. In the past few years, has the support that your human factors program has received from the university increased at an above average, average, or below average rate compared to other university programs?
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% 47. Do you think that the quality of students in human factors programs will increase, decrease, or remain the same in the next five years?
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52. Below is a list of topics that are sometimes included in human factors programs.
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Manual control theory (26) Analytical models (such as signal detection theory, decision theory, GOMS)
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Handicapped Covered Covered Not covered in required in elective as part of coursework coursework HE program 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 123 53. Please indicate which of the following human factors activities your students do as part of their classwork.
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. Develop and analyze fault trees Assess performance risks Perform safety analyses Perform human reliability analyses Evaluate reports written by others Prepare or contribute to project proposals Prepare and conduct oral presentations Prepare engineering drawings Interpret engineering drawings Review and summarize the results of previous research Develop hypotheses and theories Interpret research results ...
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: CSERIAC@ Falcon.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL The files can be obtained on a cost recovery basis, and they can be sent to the requester on either two 5-1/4" disks or two 3-1/2" disks. The files were produced using SPSSX (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software)
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If you are requesting 3-1/2" disks, the data set has not been compressed, and you may copy the HF.DAT file directly from the diskette to your hard drive. There are three command files to analyze the data from the human factors specialists survey.
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These files can be copied directly onto the hard drive of your computer system.
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