Researchers in the Human Factors and Applied Cognition program apply fundamental and applied research to the solution of practical problems. Research and courses address include creating new knowledge about human capabilities and limitations, the design and evaluation of products, systems, and environments, human perception and performance, information processing, attention, and cognitive modeling, environmental stress, and safety and engineering principles. Our graduates are both in academia and industry, such as Virginia Tech, IBM, John Deere and Co., and SAS. Students in the HFAC Program may choose to concentrate among several areas of research for their PhD degrees. At NC State, the Department of Psychology has adopted a scientist-practitioner model of graduate education. Human Factors (also known as Engineering Psychology) includes such topics as the design and evaluation of products, systems, and environments, human perception and performance, information processing, environmental stress, and safety and engineering principles. Success also requires the development of research skills and a broad knowledge of psychology.