Special Topics in Human Factors

ISYE 602 covers various special topics in human factors engineering, with content varying by semester.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Hannah Silber4.1/5

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Historical reviews of Ranjana Mehta: The course project involved group work where feedback led to worse grades, and the workload was perceived as difficult and unfair by one student.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Fall 2026
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Raw average: 4.40/5 from 25 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=39 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

A historical review of Ranjana Mehta describes her as unhelpful, noting that student feedback led to worse grades. The reviewer also reported an unjust accusation of AI use and found the grading difficult and unfair.

HANNAH SILBER is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

RANJANA MEHTA is recorded teaching in 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

Fall 2026

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction31 / 350

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Student experience

the class

A historical review of Ranjana Mehta describes her as unhelpful with unfair, difficult grading and unjust AI accusations, though no current reviews exist for Hannah Silber.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 92.2% A/AB (n=64 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.72 GPA, 83.7% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Ranjana Mehta: The course project involved group work where feedback led to worse grades, and the workload was perceived as difficult and unfair by one student.

Students may face frustrating experiences with unhelpful instruction and unjust accusations, based on one historical review of Ranjana Mehta.

Topics

  • Human factors engineering

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About this comparison

1283 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.

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Sources & history

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Selected offering source records
ISYE 602 · Fall 2026

Special Topics in Human Factors

Recorded 2026-09-07
ISYE 602 · Fall 2026

Human Factors of Complex Sys

Recorded 2026-09-07
ISYE 602 · Fall 2026

Human-AI Teaming

Recorded 2026-09-07
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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