Master of Science in Health Technology
There is a rapidly growing need for well-trained professionals with skills in human factors, user-centered design, software applications, and hardware engineering to create innovative health technologies.
Our MS in Health Technology program is training the next generation of applied health technology professionals in user needs, human factors and user experience (UI/UX), and foundational principles of hardware and software engineering. Our professional, non-thesis masters degree is designed for industry-bound professionals who seek to advance their skills health and human factors. The MS in Health Technology one-year, STEM-designated degree program is a collaboration between the College of Applied Health Sciences and The Grainger College of Engineering.
Job Titles
Associate Human Factors Engineer
Associate Product Manager
Data Engineering
Fellow
Healthcare Consulting Analyst
Human Factors Associate
Innovations and Operations Analyst
Product Coordinator
Public Health Planner
Research Associate
Research Coordinator
UI/UX Designer
Validation Engineer
Careers
of our Graduates
Employer Destinations
Bold Insight
Curo
Design Science
Emergo by UL
iHub, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medline
Motorola
OSF Healthcare
Somatus
The National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Virtusense
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MS in Health Technology Curriculum
The 36-credit hour program consists of interdisciplinary core, capstone, and elective courses through the fall, spring, and summer semesters. Foundational and core courses are taught by dedicated faculty in the Health and Kinesiology and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering departments.
4 Foundational Courses
- HT 501 – Understanding Users of Health Technology
- HT 502 – Human Factors Methods for Health Technology
- HT 503 – Hardware Engineering for Health Technology
- HT 504 – Software Engineering for Health Technology
3 Capstone Project Courses
- HT 510 – Capstone Project Orientation
- HT 511 – Capstone Project Development
- HT 512 – Capstone Project Implementation
3 Interdisciplinary Electives
- Health-focused options
- Engineering-focused options
- User-focused options
The Capstone Project
A highlight of the MS in Health Technology program is that all students participate in a year-long capstone project. This project matches students with Capstone Project Partners in industry, government, community-based organizations, and academia.
Previous Capstone Projects
- Wearable devices to link seniors and family members
- Model accelerometry data related to frailty, disability, falls
- Expert system for diagnosing falls risk in the home
- Validation of use cases for digital health technology
- Software analytics for prediction of anxiety and depression
- Digital home assistant tool for older adults’ legacies
- Mobile application to support care transitions
- Implementing, evaluating, and optimizing fall prevention technologies in senior living
- Wearable-based intelligent app for personalized at-home exercise training in adults with Multiple Sclerosis
- Affective and physiological responses to task guidance via a voice assistant
- Co-design and optimization of a web portal for identifying adults in need of exercise support
- Designing for disabilities: The human factors of battery technology for power assist devices
- Voice Vision VItals (VVV): Data collection and treatment tracing for neuropsychiatric and voice disorders
- IMPACT-Inclusion of Minority Patients in ADRD Clinical Trials through care partner engagement
- Development and validation of a fall detection device for older adults who use wheelchairs or scooters
- Centering the patient user experience for a digital health tool
- Care Partner Medication Education, Decision Support, Reminding and Monitoring (CaP-MedSRem) system
- Building health communities through park equity modeling
- User interface design for a soft and dexterous service robot to support healthcare of older adults at home
- Smartphone apps for tinnitus and hearing loss
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Our MS in Health Technology is a one-of-a-kind program, centered in health, that meets this need through classwork and experiential learning opportunities in software/hardware engineering, human factors, and user-centered design.
Students in the MS-HT program are supported throughout their degree. This support comes from various professionals across the department and campus. Students can expect support through academic advising, faculty mentoring, career advising, and professional mentorship.
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