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Applying human factors solutions to a wide variety of airport security operations, including checkpoint and checked baggage systems. Part of a small team of human factors engineers whose role within the Agency included topics like: research on manpower, personnel, training, human factors engineering and visual search.

Supporting En Route Human Factors for the FAA.

Manages a group on LinkedIn where members can submit discussions about their everyday encounters with both good and bad examples of designs where the human was or was not accounted for. Also blogger at www.whodesignedthisthing.com where personal stories and pictures are highlighted to show just enough of the technical issues or accolades in design of common consumer products, signage, interfaces, web pages, etc., to get the word out about human factors engineering. Mostly meant to be an academic resource, contributions for guest posts are ALWAYS welcome and you will get full credit for your post idea.

Subject Matter Expert, advisor, and initial staff member supporting Air Force Human Systems Integration Office (AFHSIO) - Implement HSI education and training across the Air Force; succeeded in developing or providing inputs to over 30 courses to develop an HSI-capable workforce- Establish policy, guidance and oversight of the HSI program - Provide HSI, human factors, and systems engineering technical support to over 200 weapons system programs in the JCIDS process - Develop roadmap and resources plan for education and training, and cooperative planning of professional training and university level courses - Interact closely with military and civilian leaders in all services, as well as Office of the Secretary of Defense

Over the course of over 7 years at Embry-Riddle, taught more than 15 different undergraduate and graduate classes to over 450 students - Developed each class individually, with no prior course outline or syllabus - Investigator on research projects to examine the use of highway-in-the-sky displays, multi-function touch-screen displays for navigation, fault diagnosis, re-planning, cockpit checklists, weather retrieval and traffic information. This research was part of a 5-year program, which was the early stages of the Small Aircraft Transportation System.

As Chair, I oversaw the daily functioning and progression of the nation's only undergraduate program in human factors. - Led department of nine faculty and adjuncts, teaching over 600 students per year - Coordinated budgetary planning in accordance with strategic planning - Managed department budget for salaries, research, travel and equipment - Taught classes that stressed aviation human factors engineering in aviation and space environments, and current issues in Air Traffic Control and within the aviation / space industries - Revised undergraduate program courses sequencing and content, making the undergraduate students in human factors the most sought-after future employees for the aerospace industry - Organized first industrial advisory board for the department, to ensure academic programs met the needs for aerospace and government human factors and systems engineers - Assisted in start up of a new human factors engineering research laboratory - Investigator on research project examining future cockpit displays using flat panel and highway-in-the-sky technology and software

TxDOT and other Federal transportation agencies rely on Texas Transportation Institute for its research facilities (once a training base during the war with a 7000 foot runway that makes a great "track" to conduct research) and its amazing staff of researchers from civil, traffic and human factors engineering, not to mention their fabulous simulation capability. While a researcher at TTI, I examined a new font for overhead guide signs on freeways - Clearview. It was a "field" study of epic proportions! The other research associate and I, along with grad students made the signs ourselves, by rolling on the letters in different fonts. We looked at older drivers and younger drivers, daylight and nighttime driving. It is one of my proudest moments and the study that I am the most thrilled to be a part of. The results notwithstanding, the experience was worth millions in how to conduct a large scale field study!

Taught IE430, Human Factors Engineering, to the undergraduate students in the Industrial Engineering Department. It was then a mandatory course (90s). Also taught Engineering Economy to lecture halls of students! Also taught a course in the ED TECH department on computer based instruction. Where I caught the academic bug - teaching at TAMU.

5 years of blood, sweat and tears. Amazing faculty advisors and course work! What an experience and such hard work. Loved the research opportunities, laboratory courses and learning more about basic IE also.

Taught the only human factors course available for IE majors at the undergraduate level. Learned so much from Dr. Koppa and other HF professors, like Dr. Jerry Congleton and Dr. Newton Ellis. This is where I first caught the teaching bug, which I never regret!

USAFSAM expanded my research on the human in aviation. I worked with one of the lions in the field - Dr. Kent Gillingham on spatial disorientation research and learned so much about G-induced loss of consciousness. I performed research in one of the first vertifuge simulators where we could induce spatial disorientation to create all the classic illusions that all too often led to accidents and loss of life of our Air Force pilots.

Research in color displays and a concept known in the 80s as Super Cockpit - the wearable, virtual panoramic helmet mounted displays. Worked with some amazing engineers and research scientists like Dr. David Post, Dr. Tom Furness, Dr. Mike Haas, Dr. Brian Tsou, and Dr. Dean Kocian.