Spring 2027

Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics

Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics introduces engineers to designing manufacturing and industrial operations where people play a significant role, maximizing human capabilities while minimizing physical stress and optimizing workload.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Robert Radwin

Weekly workload consisted of one quiz with unlimited attempts, one homework assignment, and one in-class assignment, alongside two exams and a final project.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Evaluate jobs, equipment, tools, products, and environments, in which people play a significant role, for health and safety hazards and the risk of injuries and illnesses

  • Devise how to reduce or eliminate physical stresses and the risk of injuries and illnesses in jobs, equipment, tools, products, and environments

  • Design jobs, workspaces and products for a diverse work population, to accommodate the variability of human dimensions strength, endurance, and physical capacity to do work

  • Design jobs equipment, tools, products, and environments so that human capabilities are maximized, physical stress is minimized, and workload is optimized

  • Identify fundamental physiological principles and biomechanical theories that are germane to the evaluation, design and reduction or elimination of stresses and strain in jobs, equipment, tools, products, and environments

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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PSYCH/​I SY E 349 or B M E 315, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

  • take one
BME/ISYE 564

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ROBERT RADWIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Robert Radwin

Students found the course structure, which relies on prerecorded content and minimal live instruction, to be unengaging and of low perceived value.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.59 GPA, 78.7% A/AB (n=47 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.91 GPA, 98.3% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.71 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=51 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Robert Radwin

Weekly workload consisted of one quiz with unlimited attempts, one homework assignment, and one in-class assignment, alongside two exams and a final project.

Past student reviews · Robert Radwin

Historical feedback criticized the instructor for using premade articles instead of live lectures and for lacking apparent dedication to student support during group activities.

Topics

  • Designing manufacturing and industrial operations with a significant human role.
  • Maximizing human capabilities, minimizing physical stress, and optimizing workload.
  • Fundamental physiological principles and biomechanical theories.
  • Industrial applications.

Skills

  • Evaluating jobs, equipment, tools, products, and environments for health and safety hazards and devising methods to reduce or eliminate physical stresses and injury risks.
  • Designing jobs, workspaces, and products for diverse populations to maximize human capabilities, minimize physical stress, and optimize workload.
  • Identifying fundamental physiological principles and biomechanical theories relevant to evaluating and designing systems to reduce stress and strain.

Grades

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
BME/ISYE 564 · Spring 2027

Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics

Recorded 2026-10-14
BME/ISYE 564 · Spring 2027

Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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