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Role of Ergonomics
Engineers in the Automotive
Design Process
INTRODUCTION
Designing a new vehicle is generally accomplished by using the systems engineering approach,
which involves creating an organization of design teams involving different disciplines. The
teams are also colocated at one site or in one building so that they can meet formally and
informally to communicate about numerous issues and trade-offs related to interfaces between
various systems and subsystems in the vehicle. The ergonomics engineers assigned to the vehicle
program follow the vehicle development from its earliest stages of dening the ...