IE 665 Applied Industrial Ergonomics (Fall 2009)

Sect	Days	Times	Room	Credits
101	Wednesday	0600pm - 0900pm	TIER 108	3.00

Instructor
Dr. Arijit K. Sengupta, Email: sengupta@njit.edu, Web: http://web.njit.edu/~sengupta/
Office: GITC 2517, NJIT
Office Hours: Monday 10:30 am to 11:55 am. Other time by appointment

Catalog Description
Introduces the fundamentals and applications of industrial ergonomics for improving equipment, tool, workplace, and job design. Engineers, as well as safety and health professionals, will benefit from the course by understanding the design principles for human operators and current issues in industrial ergonomics, and a variety of evaluating methodologies for the design.

Textbook
Work Design: Industrial Ergonomics by Stephan A. Konz and Steven Johnson, latest edition, ISBN: 1-890871-79-6.
Lecture notes and other relevant materials, which will be posted on this page, are also required reading for the course.

Course Outline
Tentative weekly schedule of lecture topics (Any change will be notified beforehand in the class)

Week	Topic
Sep 2	Introduction of ergonomics (handout version), Homework , term project outline
Sep 9 Sep 16 Sep 23	Muscular contraction     Lecture note Quiz             Muscle types and joints                                            Structure of muscle cells and mechanism of contraction             Length tension relationship             Type of contractions: isometric, concentric, eccentric             Aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism             Central and peripheral nervous system, motor unit             Regulation of force, local muscle fatigue EMG analysis (DHHS 91-100, read chapter 2 and 5) Electromyogram Laboratory#1 EMG graphs
Sep 30	Anatomy of cardiovascular system Handout Heart rate, stroke volume, blood pressure, oxygen consumption Metabolic rate and fatigue Handout
Oct 7	Temporal Ergonomics Handout Quiz Biomechanics                         Download   Lecture  Homework      Solution Lever systems, Static and dynamic muscle and joint forces Download 3DSSPP software– Laboratory#2
Oct 14	Engineering anthropometry, percentile calculations, use of data handout Normal distribution table Philippine anthropometric data Workstation Design handout quiz
Oct 21	Midterm Exam
Oct 28	Workstation Design continued Supermarket Checkstand Design
Nov 4	Musculoskeletal Disorders RULA analysis exercise MDS quiz Case study
Nov 11	Manual Handling NIOSH lifting equation Homework worksheet
Nov 18	Hand tool design Lecture note
Dec 2	Term Project Presentation
Dec 9	Final Exam

Grade Distribution

Quizzes, Lab, attendance and class participation (15%)

Term project (25%) with a report a class presentation on an ergonomics topic.

Midterm and Final Exam (30% each)

NJIT Honor code constitution will be followed