MS in Health Technology

Master of Science in Health Technology

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

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

Choose Health Tech

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

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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Choose Illinois

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.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research. Teaching. Public Engagement.

The Graduate College

Supporting Illinois graduate students.

Campus

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Living in Champaign-Urbana

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Design for Health