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Ergonomics (ICM 241) Course Details
Course
Name
Course Term
Code
Ergonomics ICM
241
Autumn
Lecture Application Lab Credit ECTS
Hours
Hours
Hours
1
2
0
2
3
Pre-requisite
Course(s)
Course Language
Turkish
Course Type
Compulsory Departmental Courses
Course Level
Bachelor
Mode of Delivery
Face to Face
Learning and
Teaching
Strategies
Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Question and
Answer, Problem Solving, Team/Group, Project
Design/Management
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
• Bölüm Öğretim Elemanı
Course Assistants
Course Objectives
To increase the understanding of anthropological
and ergonomic data, gained by research, and to
apply this data into design methodology.
Course Learning
Outcomes
The students who succeeded in this course;
Course Content
Human behavior and its relations to the design of
environments; with the use of Environmental
Psychology and its major assumptions, perception,
cognition, needs, activities and responses are
explored in the private and public spaces.
• To understand relationship between space
design and body size,
• To analyze critical point of view relationship
between current design and human size,
• To gain the ability to make appropriate design
according to body size in the space,
• In the production of new spatial design to gain
the skill to create a new measurement system,
• To use aesthetic and dimension in the new space
design and product design production of.
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
Week Subjects
Preparation
1
Introduction to ergonomics
To gain information about course
content from source books
2
Principles and practice of
anthropometrics
To read information related parts
from source books
3
Human diversity
To read information related parts
from source books. Preparation to
the homework.
4
Static anthropometric data and
the dynamic anthropometry of
clearance and reach
Assignment submission
5
Muscles, joints and skeletal
system features
To read information related parts
from source books
6
Anthropometry of special region
of the body (head, face, back,
hands and feet)
Group work and presentation
7
Seating
Group work and presentation
8
Domestic workstations
Group work and presentation
9
Office workstations
Group work and presentation
10
Mid-term
Mid-term exam preparation
11
Industrial workstations
Group work and presentation
12
Children workstations
Group work and presentation
13
People with disabilities and
handicapped
Group work and presentation
14
Controls and displays
To read information related parts
from source books
15
Examples
Example review
16
Final Exam
Final exam preparation
Sources
1. Bridger, R.S. (1995) Introduction to Ergonomics. New York:
Other
Sources: McGraw-Hill.
2. Ching, Francis D. K. (2004) Mimarlık-Biçim, Mekân ve Düzen.
İstanbul: Yapı Yayın.
3. Harrigan, John. (1987) Human factors research:methods and
applications for architects and interior designers. Amsterdam;
Oxford: Elsevier.
4. Kroemer, Karl., Henrike Kroemer., Katrin Kroemer-Elbert.
(2001) Ergonomics-How to Design For Ease and Efficiency. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
5. Le Corbusier. (1957) The Modulor-A Harmonious Measure to
the Human Scale Universally Applicable to Architecture and
Mechanics by Le Corbusier. London and Hertford:Faber and
Faber Limited Published.
6. Panero, Julius. Martin Zelnik. (1979) Human Dimension and
Interior Space A Source Book of Design Reference Standards,
CA-USA:Watson-Guptill.*
7. Pheasant, Stephen. (1986) Bodyspace:antropometry
ergonomics and design. London: Taylor and Francis.*
8. Reznikoff, S.C. (1986) Interior Graphic and Design Standards.
London: The Architectural Press.*
9. Sabancı, Alaettin. (1999) Ergonomi. Adana: Baki Kitabevi.
10. Sanders, Mark., Ernest McCormick. (1993) Human Factors
in Engineering and Design. New York: McGraw-Hill.
11. Su, Bayram Ali. (2001) Ergonomi. Ankara: Atılım
Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Evaluation System
Requirements
Number
Percentage
of Grade
Attendance/Participation
-
-
Laboratory
-
-
Application
1
15
Field Work
-
-
Special Course Internship
-
-
Quizzes/Studio Critics
-
-
Homework Assignments
2
5
Presentation
1
20
Project
-
-
Seminar
-
-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury
1
20
Final Exam/Final Jury
1
40
Total
6
100
Percentage of Semester Work
60
Percentage of Final Work
40
Total
100
Course Category
Core Courses
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and
Managment Skills
Courses
Transferable Skill
Courses
X
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and
Program Qualifications
# Program Qualifications / Competencies
Level of
Contribution
1
2
1 Reflecting Information into academic
environment
X
2 Theoretical, scientific, artistic, historical
background/structure
X
3 Social, environmental, sustainability principles
X
4 Legal framework
3
X
5 Institutional and ethical values
6 Capability to reflect theory into practice
7 Capability to make research and interpret the
results
X
X
8 Capability to develop alternative solutions
X
9 Effective writing, drawing and presentation
X
10 Capability to perform independent and
interdisciplinary works
X
11 Capable to criticize, produce counter thesis and
synthesis
X
12 Life-long learning consciousness
X
13 Foreign Language Use capability
14 Capable to use information technologies
15 Respect for ethical values, laws, human rights,
environmental and cultural heritage
4
5
ECTS/Workload Table
Activities
Course Hours (Including
Exam Week: 16 x Total
Hours)
Number
Duration
(Hours)
Total
Workload
16
3
48
3
3
9
Study Hours Out of Class
6
3
18
Presentation/Seminar
Prepration
1
3
3
2
3
6
Prepration of Midterm
Exams/Midterm Jury
1
3
3
Prepration of Final
Exams/Final Jury
1
3
3
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Project
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Total Workload
90