Appalachian Training Program in Occupational Health & Safety

描述（由申请人提供）：西弗吉尼亚大学的工业卫生和计划（IH）教育硕士水平的学生，以帮助满足对工业卫生，人体工程学和安全方面具有强大技能的职业卫生专业人员的需求，重点是工程控制。IH计划由工程和矿产资源学院（CEMR）的工业和管理系统工程系（IMSE）管理。该计划的目标是培养理解研究的从业人员，但也愿意并能够使用危险识别，代表性采样和工程控制的坚实基础来解决现实世界的问题，特别是在通风和噪音控制方面，但也在人体工程学和安全方面。强调控制危害是不寻常的，因此越来越需要。该计划的第二个目标是为本科工程师以及WVU其他专业的硕士和博士学生提供入门的IH，安全和人体工程学教育，包括采矿工程，职业医学，工业和劳动关系，安全管理，环境管理和职业安全博士课程。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the Applicant): The Industrial Hygiene and program (IH) at West Virginia University educates students at the Masters level to help meet the need for occupational health professionals with strong skills in industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and safety, with an emphasis on engineering controls. The IH program is administered through the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department (IMSE) in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR). The goal of the program is to train practitioners who understand research but also are willing and able to solve real-world problems using recognition of hazards, representative sampling, and a strong grounding in engineering controls, especially in ventilation and noise control but also in ergonomics and safety. The emphasis on control of hazards is unusual and therefore increasingly needed. A secondary goal of the program is to provide introductory IH, safety, and ergonomics education to undergraduate engineers and to Masters and doctoral students in other programs at WVU, including Mining Engineering, Occupational Medicine, Industrial and Labor Relations, Safety Management, Environmental Management, and the Occupational Safety Doctoral Program. The IH Masters degree requires the completion of a minimum of 41 semester hours, including either a 3-hour problem report or a 6-hour thesis, with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0. All students must complete designated courses in IH, air sampling, noise, ventilation, safety, epidemiology, ergonomics, toxicology, and environmental science. All required course work is taught in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the School of Medicine, but students may take elective courses in other colleges of the university. Emphasis is placed on the development of written and oral communication skills through projects, papers, and presentations and on industrial knowledge through workplace tours, work in the Occupational Medicine clinic, and industry-based problem reports and research theses. The IH Program is ABET-accredited as an Applied Science program in IH.