Kathryn Tippey, Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the Outstanding Student Researcher award from the Partnership for Enhancing General Aviation Safety and Sustainability (PEGASAS) program.
While accepting this award, Tippey was also announced as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) sole nominee for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Outstanding Student Researcher award.
“I am excited to have accepted this award and to have been nominated for the Department of Transportation award,” Tippey said. “It is nice to be recognized for my hard work.”
These honors recognize her work with Dr. Thomas Ferris, assistant professor in the department, and the FAA.
“This is a project investigating how general aviation pilots receive information via current cockpit technology,” said Ferris. “Katie played a prominent role in the design of flight simulator scenarios, installing them at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center, and the conduction of human subjects experiments.”