Faculty Research Interests

  • Dr. Brent D. Bowen
    • Service Quality Evaluation
    • Safety and security
    • Gender Issues in Aviation
  • Dr. Thomas Q. Carney
    • The impact of weather on aviation operations
    • Synoptic-scale dynamics and energetics, and the interactions between synoptic- and mesoscale motion fields
    • High performance turbine operations
    • High altitude/high speed flight
    • Corporate flight department management
  • Prof. Brian G. Dillman
    • Methods for implementing a safety culture in a collegiate aviation environment
    • Advanced upset training applicable to the airlines and aircraft control issues
    • Identifying methods to determine the probability of success and increasing student retention in aviation flight program
  • Dr. Richard O. Fanjoy
    • Advanced Transportation Aircraft Operations
    • Advanced flight instrumentation
    • Flight student cognition and achievement motivation
    • Aviation Human Factors
    • Aviation Globalization
  • Dr. Thomas C. Hagovsky
    • Distance education
    • Computing (WWW integration into education process)
    • Human Factors dealing with the pilot maintenance technician communications and interactions
  • Dr. Mary E. Johnson
    • Lean Manufacturing systems
    • Supply Chain management
    • Production systems operations
    • Enterprise Engineering
    • Quality function deployment
  • Prof. Denver W. Lopp
    • Evaluation of Soy-Diesel Fuel Blends
    • Turbine Engine Operation Using Soybean Methyl Ester Blends
    • Human Factors research in airline line maintenance operations
    • Communications of Aircraft  Malfunctions Between Flight, Maintenance, and Technical Support Personnel
  • Dr. Chien Tsung-Lu
    • Safety Management Systems
    • Airport Security
    • Risk Management in Aviation Systems
  • Prof. Michael S. Nolan
    • Air traffic control technologies, procedures, air traffic management and controller training systems
    • Airline operations, high performance flight planning
    • Computer network theory and operation, computer assisted instruction and training
  • Dr. Dale B. Oderman
    • Air transportation Fundamentals
    • Aviation History
    • Airline Operations and Management
    • Aviation Safety and Security
    • Business Ethics
    • Communications Skills
  • Prof. Donald A. Petrin
    • Aviation Human Factors and Crew Resource Management
    • Advanced Aircraft Automation
    • Globalization Concepts and Implementation
    • Development of Aviation Safety Decision Matrices
  • Prof. Timothy D. Ropp
    • Safety resource management
    • Maintenance management
    • Human factors in maintenance facility design
  • Dr. Stewart Schreckengast
    • Safety Management Systems
    • Internation Aviation Regulatory Structures
    • Airport Security
  • Prof. David Stanley
    • Biofuels testing and development
    • Propulsion development
    • Extended and Advanced Aircraft Support
  • Prof. Ronald Sterkenburg
    • Composite and Metallic Aircraft Structural Repair
    • Composite Material Manufacturing
  • Prof. J. Mark Thom
    • Inappropriate Crew Response to engine malfunction
    • Alternative Fuels and Propulsion Systems
    • Engineering Design Support and Logistics Analysis
    • Female and Minority Careers in Aerospace Technologies
    • Distance Education
  • Prof. Bernard W. Wulle
    • Accident Investigation
    • Communication issues between flight crews and ground support technicians
    • Gender issues in the aviation industry
    • Regional Airline operations
  • Prof. John P. Young
    • Human Factors and Crew Resource Management (CRM)
    • Airline Operations and Procedures
    • Transport Aircraft Systems Training and Related Instructional Technologies

Audiences