Aerospace Engineering Technical Elective Program - Focus Areas

This book was written for the aviation community, but students, engineers, pilots, scientists, managers, and government personnel will all benefit from the comprehensive overview of Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace. Researchers and practitioners in other safety-critical domains will also find the book valuable, since it was edited by four experts in the field of Human Factors Science.

This book describes the latest applications of advanced technologies in the field of simulation and training. Includes topics like space adaptation syndrome and perceptual training, simulation for battle-ready command and control, healthcare simulation and training, Human Factors aspects of cybersecurity training and testing, design and development of algorithms for gesture-based control of semi-autonomous vehicles, and advances in the after-action review process for defense training.

The most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT’s advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism. This book explores traditional and emerging topics of Human Factors centered around the maritime, road, rail, and aviation transportation domains.

The process of identifying and tracking space objects, known as space situation awareness (SSA), is complicated by several challenges in cislunar environments. There is a need for methods to evaluate the effectiveness of human-machine teams, and researchers will adapt the Ohio State team’s methodology, Joint Activity Testing (JAT), to extend to applications for SSA in cislunar space, and potentially beyond.