products only have a chance on the market, if they are fit to man, in compliance with ocological requirements and if the price of the product is acceptable. Based on this considerations, methods are lectured for designing products such as screw driver, condtruction machines, software, augmented and virtual reality, control rôoms or interfaces in semi autonomous vehicles.

Work Psychology and Ergonomics are subdisciplines of Work Science and share a basic understanding of the 'humane' design of work tools, places, tasks and systems. The lecture presents basic knowledge of both subdisciplines and demonstrates it in examples. The students learn to understand and reflect theoretical concepts, empirical research and the advantages of a work design adapted to people.

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The MTE subjects are primarily meant to give future engineers a solid introduction to the field, to encourage them to educate themselves further and ultimately to enable them to deal successfully with complex systems and to see technical objectives and decisions, with all consequences, against a non-technical background.

Technology should provide best support to their users and their abilities and needs. But practice reveals that the use of machines and computer software often leads to difficulties, errors and accidents. You should learn to design compatible to the users and their tasks, i.e. to design ergonomically. Therefore the lecture offers methods, design projects (medicine, air traffic) and exercises.