<p>Ds has been trying to figure out what he wants to major in - pretty much no interest in any of the STEM fields other than may be a web design/development/multimedia as a compromise.</p>
<p>His passion is music journalism which is not very practical of course, also interested in psychology and sociology which are not much more practical, especially with just the undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>My niece who is a recruiter in the IT field had recently mentioned the human factors engineering field which sounded interesting but I am trying to find out more about it and am not finding that much. </p>
<p>Does anybody know much about it? Job prospects, salary information etc? Any personal experiences with this field?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>Emily.</p>
<p>When I worked on flight simulators for a defense contractor I worked with several “human factors” engineers. We gave them a hard time (‘wait - should the green be lighter or maybe more yellow?’), but cockpit ergonomics are important. That was 20 years ago so I can’t comment on salaries, but compared to the other disciplines there were very few of those guys around.</p>
<p>I worked for an agency which, at least early on, did human factors research to improve users’ (both in the agency and external) experience with computers and web sites. D, a psych major, did a little research into grad programs and got as far as looking at George Mason—their program is in the psych department–before deciding on a different application. Interestingly, her bff from high school is now in a PhD program at the University of Limerick in Ireland, studying their version of human factors engineering.</p>