COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ERGONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 1002 ERGONOMICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Occupational Health and Safety

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR NERGIS MELIS ULUĞTEKIN

Offered to

Occupational Health and Safety

Course Objective

The course aims to teach students natural, technical and easthetical principles of relationship of people to the environment they live in and objects they use considering parameters of their anatomy, antropometry and physical and psychological capacities and tolerances.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn about problems that arise in the workplace ergonomics problems
2   Examines the problems ergonomic that occur in the workplace, to learn editing system
3   Learn the relevance of ergonomics and occupational safety issues, investigates solutions.
4   Gain ideas and concepts by intrepreting ergonomically and anthropometrically applied examples

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Ergonomics and Universal Description
2 Ergonomically Study of the Human Body
3 Technical Anthropometry
4 Importance of ergonomy and anthropometry in human life
5 Factors playing effective roles in ergonomy and anthropometry
6 1. Midterm
7 Factors infuencing human performance and roles of ergonomy and anthropometry
8 Working place factors
9 Working place factors
10 The importance of ergonomics in occupational health and safety
11 Case Study Evaluation and Implementation
12 2. Midterm
13 Case Study Evaluation and Implementation
14 Case Study Evaluation and Implementation

Recomended or Required Reading

Endüstriyel Ergonomi, Alaeddin ARPACI ve diğerleri,Istanbul,Nobel Yayınları 2012

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1.Lecture
2.DVD recorder, video etc.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MT1 1.MIDTERM
2 MT2 2.MIDTERM
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MT1 * 0.20 +MT2*0.20+FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MT1 * 0.20 +MT2*0.20+RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

It is calculated by taking 40% average grade of midterm exams, 60% of the final exam success rating.
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Assessment Criteria

The understanding degree of students to 4 learning outputs is evaluated by midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% of participation in the courses is mandatory.
2.All kinds of plagiarism (cheating) initiative, and the actual results in disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Öğr. Gör. Nergis Melis ULUĞTEKIN
melis.ulugtekin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 2 9 18
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
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Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19
LO.14
LO.242
LO.343
LO.43