ABSTRACT
Ergonomics has grown rapidly in Taiwan since 1983, becoming increasingly important since the initiation of the course in industrial engineering departments. e industrial engineering department at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu was one of the pioneers in o™ering this course. e course was titled “human factors,” as in the United States, where a majority of the faculty members had received their graduate degrees. e rst ergonomics graduate program in Taiwan was initiated a couple of years later at NTHU. Many other universities and colleges followed suit. More than 20 schools currently o™er at least one human factors course for undergraduate studies. Human factors has become an important branch in the eld of industrial engineering and is increasingly known for its many applications, for example, workplace and protective equipment design, tra€c and transportation system design, and control room design for nuclear power plants and chemical plants.
