Graduate Program

Graduate study in psychology at Wright State started in 1979 with the Master of Arts degree in Human Factors which was offered through the multidisciplinary Applied Behavioral Sciences program. More recently, a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Organizational psychology was added. These two masters degree programs were very successful and have grown rapidly since then. In 1992, the programs were converted to Master of Science programs that are administrated solely by the Department of Psychology. In addition, we were authorized to award a Doctor of Philosophy degree in these areas. These actions have been officially approved by the State of Ohio Board of Regents.

For more information you can contact:

Lori Luckner
Graduate Program Secretary
Email: lori.luckner@wright.edu
Phone: (937) 775-2391
Department of Psychology
335 Fawcett Hall
3640 Col Glenn Hwy
Dayton, OH 45435

Our unique Graduate Program provides students a solid grounding in both Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational psychology. The program emphasizes that both specialties work best together to produce results that neither specialty could achieve alone. Students in both the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs complete traditional specialization in either human factors or industrial/organizational psychology, and the second area serves as a minor area of focus. Our program is designed to foster an understanding of the relationships between the human factors and industrial/organizational specialties. Students are prepared for this collaboration by learning the fundamentals of each specialty then interacting with one another in a wide variety of research settings. The goal is a multidimensional education that prepares students for careers in business and industry as well as research, teaching, government, and consulting. Our graduate degree programs place a heavy emphasis on research that is focused on but not limited to:

Workload and attention
Virtual Environments
Personality and stess assessment
Job performance and assessment
Cognitive development and aging
Visual and auditory processes
Aviation, medicine, and driving
Human-Computer interaction
Decision making and expertise
Training and motivation

In addition to the Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology programs, our department also have many faculty who participate in the Neuroscience track of Wright State's interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program. For more information on the Biomedical Sciences program, please visit: The Biomedical Sciences Program website.

The HFIO program also collaborates in the Technology-based Learning with Disabilities Specialization (LwD). The LwD program is an interdisciplinary program to study technologies to support learning for students with disabilities. This program has support through NSF's Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program and offers Fellowships for qualified students who are interested in pursuing research in the fields of disability and assistive technologies.

For more information about the Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Graduate Programs please visit these links:

IO/HF Graduate Program Newsletters

Keep up with news and events in the program and learn about our faculty and students

Spring 2013 Newsletter