<p>What kind of degree is necessary to get into this field? Engineering psychologists are those guys who increase the usability of stuff.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need to be an engineer to do this kind of work in many cases, but it’s probably helpful to have a degree in the field that most closely matches what you want to work on. For example, in software, the focus is more on creating an intuitive layout so that people can navigate the application with little to no training, rather than actually coding yourself. Make the software make sense. You most definitely do not need any programming experience or a CS degree to do this, but it would be beneficial to know how difficult it would be to implement these ideas so that it wouldn’t create excessive work for the programmers. Industrial engineering is probably involved in this as well.</p>
<p>RIT is supposed to have some kind of degree in Engineering Psych.</p>
<p>Perhaps you are thinking of Human Factors or HMI (Human Machine Interaction) working on MMI (Man-Machine Interfaces) or HCI (Human Computer Interfaces). There’s also some overlap with Ergonomics.</p>
<p>Biometrics might also be an interesting field.</p>
<p>From what I understand, people with all sorts of degrees make it into that field, ranging from engineering to computer science to psychology.</p>
<p>mrego’s suggestions (HCI, HMI, etc) are not commonly offered undergraduate degrees. Though they are the field you are interested in, they are mostly reserved for graduate study.</p>
<p>If I had to give a single recommendation, I’d say Psych major, CS minor (or the opposite). However, again, people from many different majors make it into this field.</p>
<p>[Applied</a> Experimental and Engineering Psychology](<a href=“http://www.rit.edu/emcs/ptgrad/grad/1407.php3]Applied”>http://www.rit.edu/emcs/ptgrad/grad/1407.php3)</p>