Kevin Jordan is an American human factors

Human factors

Human factors science or human factors technologies is a multidisciplinary field incorporating contributions from psychology, engineering, industrial design, statistics, operations research and anthropometry...

 researcher and professor at San José State University

San José State University

San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...

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Biography

Dr. Jordan was born in Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City, New Jersey

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. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Kansas State University

Kansas State University

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 in 1982. He has been at San José State since 1984 and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in visual perception

Visual perception

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. As a researcher, he works closely with NASA

NASA

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He is married and has two children. He also enjoys running marathons in his spare time.

Awards

• 1992: Public Service Medal
• 1996: Outstanding Professor, San Jose State University
• 2001: Outstanding Teacher, Western Psychological Association