the study of people in their working environment in order to maximize safety or efficiency
human engineering in American English
noun
an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker
Also called: ergonomics, human-factors engineering (ˈhjuːmənˌfæktərz, or often ˈjuː-ˌ)
Word origin
[1930–35, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, cloverleaf, logical positivism, saddle stitch, uncertainty principle
Examples of 'human engineering' in a sentence
human engineering
There is little indication of the radical human engineering that goes on within.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Livestock engineering is about human engineering: there are 60m of us.