Aviation research, sourced & cited.

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Cocktail & Networking Reception

Panel: Supporting Diversity in the Aviation Industry

Since its humble beginnings in 1903, aviation has become a global economic powerhouse. Air travel is as accessible as it has ever been. The global airline industry continues to grow at over 5% per year.

Break

The Effects of Cultural Factors on Safety in Aviation Focusing on Asian and Western Cultures

Several aviation accidents from the past, such as the Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport in 2015, have highlighted possible effects of Korean hierarchy culture on the safety of flight.

Adversity: Its Affect on the Resilience of Female Pilots

Women are one of the solutions to alleviating the pending pilot shortage. Becoming a pilot needs to appeal to women. Resilience plays an important role in determining whether women in male-dominated career fields will pu…

Session 4 - Diversity in Aviation

Lunch Keynote Speaker — Automation & Other Stuff

Conference Welcome & Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Introduction of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President

Pilot-Supply Sustainability—Standards, Outreach, and Mentoring

Flight training organizations in North America are experiencing strong student interest in flight training and a career as a professional pilot.

An Examination of Recent Female Graduates from a Collegiate Aviation Program and their Decisions to Become Professional Pilots

Despite evidence of males and females having generally comparable abilities as pilots, very few women choose this career path. According to the Federal Aviation Administration database of aviators, approximately 7% of th…

Gender Differences in Factors Influencing Retention in Aviation Occupations

In the past 90 years, the workforce has been diversified in many fields yet diversity in the pilot workforce has remained stagnant. This also holds true for other aviation occupations (e.g., aviation maintenance, air tra…

Session 3 - Pilot Supply - Addressing the Needs: Diversifying the Industry

Break — Sponsored by Marathon Aviation

Preliminary Results of a Study Investigating Aviation Students' Intentions to use Virtual Reality for Flight Training

Educators have incorporated technology into flight training for decades. These devices have increased in complexity since the Link trainers of the early 20th century, resulting in aviation training devices, full flight s…

Developing a Safety Performance Algorithm (SPA) for Part 141 Flight Departments

Utilizing a two-phase approach, the purpose of the research was to create and validate a single quantitative indicator of flight safety performance for Part 141 flight departments to increase the accuracy of the Risk Man…

Measuring Fatigue and Sleepiness in Collegiate Aviation Pilots

The National Transportation Safety Board has communicated the need to reduce fatigue related accidents through the top ten most wanted list.

A Look at Risk Attitude: Flight Students Compared to Non-Flight Students

This study delves into a student pilot’s ability to perceive levels of risk compared to non-flight students. A pilot’s ability to assess risks and adequately mitigate or prevent that risk is essential for safe operation.…

Holographic Telepresence and Collaborative Learning Platforms: The Future Reality of Aviation Education

Mixed reality (MR) and telepresence technologies present a new paradigm of augmented reality, where for the first time we have the ability to take the analog world and superimpose digital 3D training artifacts in collabo…

Using VR for Training how to Conduct A Tire Change on an Aircraft

Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming an affordable and increasingly common tool for training. Twenty-four Aviation Maintenance Science students were randomly assigned to a VR group or a Traditional Training (Demonstration) g…

Critical Design Decisions to Support the Adoption and Impact of Virtual Reality Aircraft Maintenance Training Systems

A recent forecast conducted by Boeing predicted a shortage of over 750,000 technicians by 2037. The reasons for this shortage range from retention issues and a shrinking technical workforce to higher future flight demand…

Concurrent Sessions: Session 2B - Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality in Aviation Training

Concurrent Sessions: Session 2A - Aviation Safety Management Systems

Fatigue in Collegiate Aviation

Flight training has received little attention in fatigue research. Only transfers of knowledge gained in commercial and military aviation have been applied to general aviation without bridging the gap to the training env…

Concurrent Sessions: Session 1A - Flight Training

Concurrent Sessions: Session 1B - UAS: Industry Perspectives

Students’ Perspective of Self-Guided Simulation Training on Process in the Initial Phase of Private Pilot Flight Training: A Preliminary Review

As the demand for flight training increases, self-guided training methods for students can be explored to determine their effect on environment for learning.

Backwards Chaining – Accelerating Solo Flight Training

Flight simulation has made progressively significant inroads into pilot training at all levels of a pilot’s career – typically starting with training for the Instrument rating in light aircraft and concluding with Type C…

Student Learning and Retention Using a Flight Training Device: A Case Study

Student learning and retention as a function of the mode of teaching is analyzed in this study. Different groups of students receive information about aircraft flight operations either via lecture, through directed study…

Student Pilot Perceptions of Flight Training

Within the aviation industry, there is an increasing demand for an estimated 635,000 new pilots over the next 20 years (Boeing, 2018).

Drones are Everywhere!

Drones are everywhere! Using technology to enhance learning in collegiate and secondary school education. Unmanned Aerial Systems are invading our campus at Utah State University, and we see drones flying everywhere.

Global Outlook of Aviation & Drones

This presentation will discuss the Global outlook in Aviation & Drones. It will cover both manned and unmanned aviation forecast. Topics that will be covered - The Future of Aviation Aviation Forecast Who is using Drones…

Drones: Where does the National Airspace System Start?

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles (UAV), drones and Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAV) constitute the greatest technological advancement since the jet age.

Implementation of Team-Based Learning in Aviation Education

Recent research in the field of Aviation Education and Educational Psychology has shown that students are in need of greater interaction and social skills.

Examining UAS Employment Expectations and Requirements

Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology is radically changing how organizations, such as government agencies, non-profit corporations, and companies, apply aviation resources.

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Routine opioid outcome monitoring in community pharmacy: Outcomes from an open-label single-arm implementation-effectiveness pilot study.

BACKGROUND In response to rising harms with prescription opioids, recent attention has focused on how to better utilise community pharmacists to monitor outcomes with opioid medicines.

Safety Advisor: Emergency Procedures

Safety advisor on emergency-handling: engine failure on takeoff vs cruise vs approach, partial power loss, electrical failure, smoke/fire, gear malfunction, and forced-landing technique.

Monitoring for Flight Path Management: Inputs to Pilot Monitoring Training

The commercial aviation industry world-wide has identified a need for improved pilot monitoring (e.g., ICAO, 2016). More specifically, aviation safety data indicate that failures in pilots' monitoring for flight path man…

Probably Approximately Correct Vision-Based Planning using Motion Primitives

This paper presents an approach for learning vision-based planners that provably generalize to novel environments (i.e., environments unseen during training).

Changes in leg cycling muscle synergies after training augmented by functional electrical stimulation in subacute stroke survivors: a pilot study

Muscle synergies analysis can provide a deep understanding of motor impairment after stroke and of changes after rehabilitation. In this study, the neuro-mechanical analysis of leg cycling was used to longitudinally inve…

Optimal Jammer Placement in UAV-assisted Relay Networks

We consider the relaying application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in which UAVs are placed between two transceivers (TRs) to increase the throughput of the system.

Go-Around Detection Using Crowd-Sourced ADS-B Position Data

The decision of a flight crew to undertake a go-around, aborting a landing attempt, is primarily to ensure the safe conduct of a flight.

Data Freshness and Energy-Efficient UAV Navigation Optimization: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) devic…

UAV Aided Search and Rescue Operation Using Reinforcement Learning

Owing to the enhanced flexibility in deployment and decreasing costs of manufacturing, the demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to soar in the upcoming years.

A two-stage algorithm for aircraft conflict resolution with trajectory recovery

As air traffic volume is continuously increasing, it has become a priority to improve traffic control algorithms to handle future air travel demand and improve airspace capacity.