Multidivisional graduate education program in sensory engineering

Sensory engineering is defined to be the science and technology of synthetic environments. This emerging discipline incorporates such technologies as virtual environments and virtual reality, data visualization, human sensory system modeling, human-machine interface, and perception, cognition and performance characterization. An educational curriculum requires basic science in the fields of computer science, electrical engineering, psychology, physiology, the biomedical sciences, and mathematics. The authors present the plan for a multidivisional graduate education program in sensory engineering, being developed at the Johns Hopkins University, within the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, and the Applied Physics Laboratory