IE 202 Work Study and Ergonomics
Spring 2012
 
Instructor: Dr. Benhür Satır
Office: L310, Phone: 233 1368
                                   
Assistant: Funda Karabak
Office: L322, Phone: 233 1375
 
Course Description:

 
This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of Work Study and Ergonomics, which are both used in the examination of human and work in all their contexts. The topics covered in the course are introduction, problem solving tools (recording and analysis tools, activity charts, line balancing), operation analysis, manual work design (principles of motion economy, motion study), time study (performance rating and allowances), standard data and formulas, work sampling, predetermined time systems, job analysis, job evaluation and compensation, design (workplace, equipment, and tool), work environment design.

 

Corequisites: IE 243
 
Class meeting hours:
                       
 
Office hours: to be announced later
 
Textbook:     M. P. Groover, Work Systems and the Methods, Measurement and Management of Work, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007
 
Supplementary course material:
                        B. Niebel and A. Freivalds Methods Standards and Work Design, McGraw-Hill, 2003
 
 
Tentative Course Schedule: