Engineering Psychology as a Humanities for Engineers

This paper describes the way how to conduct a humanities course at a technical university which will be engineers friendly. The majority of humanities courses are narrative based and performance in verbal tasks is more problematic for students of engineering. On the other hand, Engineering psychology is based on experiments and its teaching methods should be more similar to physics than philosophy. Moreover, Engineering psychology is directly connected to the solution of technical systems. Classical themes of Engineering psychology are a human factor, operator control or human-machine interface and user experience, collaboration with AI, or deployment of bio-cybernetic systems. This paper presents an experimental based approach to teaching humanities classes at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU in Prague. Introduces general principles and describes eleven laboratory tasks from Engineering psychology.