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Shaping Visual Sound: A friendly look at total institutions and their role in the subculture of competitive marching music
Get PDFTaking Off with Crowdsourcing: HeroX’s Pioneering Role in Redefining the Future of Aviation
Get PDFThe article explores HeroX’s pioneering role in aviation innovation, emphasizing how crowdsourcing can be used to solve complex issues in the aviation industry and how it has the potential to shape the future of aviation. By highlighting a number of HeroX-led initiatives, the article sheds light on the platform’s distinct approach to fostering global collaboration, enhancing technological advancements, and facilitating educational opportunities in the aviation industry
A Theoretical Model to Understand Flight Instructors’ Safety Behaviors in the United States: Through Personality Traits, Self-Efficacy, Risk Perception, and Safety Climate
Get PDFSafety is an important aspect for any organization or individual to be successful, and the field of aviation has no exceptions. A CFI is authorized to give training and endorsements required for student, private, commercial, and instrument pilot certificates. CFIs play a very critical role in the success of pilot-in training students at flight schools (Osman et al., 2022). According to AOPA (2015), the two greatest risks in flight training are loss of control inflight (LOC) and midair collisions. Moreover, approximately 71% of the accidents in which a CFI was involved happened during takeoff/climb, low altitude maneuvers, and Instrumental Meteorological Conditions (IMC). The probable cause of LOC and midair collisions was due to poor decision making, bad judgement and unsafe behaviors of the CFIs (AOPA, 2015). In psychological aviation research, various perspectives, such as those associated with social cognition and personality, have attempted to explain individual differences in risky behaviors and accident involvement (Ji et al., 2011). The purpose of the present study was to build a theoretical model that demonstrates the relationship between personality traits, self-efficacy, risk-perception, safety climate, and safety behaviors of CFIs. A literature review was conducted to identify the existing relationships between the target constructs used in the study and the safety behaviors among workers across various aviation and non-aviation work settings. Over 100 abstracts were reviewed for relevancy, and 43 articles, published between 1990 and 2020, were selected for full review. Of the 43 articles selected, only 30 articles were thoroughly reviewed and used to extract information. The results indicated the proposed theoretical model: (a) CFIs’ personality traits as measured by CFIs levels of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness will directly influence their safety behaviors; (b) CFIs’ self-efficacy and risk-perception named as affective domain variables will have a direct influence on their safety behaviors; (c) CFIs’ safety climate will directly influence their safety behaviors; (d) CFIs’ self-efficacy and risk-perception will mediate the relationship between CFIs’ personality traits and safety behaviors; and (e) Flight school’s safety climate, as measured by CFIs’ perceived.
 
Lessons from the 2023 IEEE Autonomous Drone Chase Challenge
Get PDFThe IEEE Drone Chase Challenge was held in 2022 and 2023 to foster development in Unmanned Aerial Systems and to provide a venue for collegiate students developing integrated UAS solutions in which to compete. The challenge is comprised of two stages: an online simulator-based stage and a physical in-person final. The development of each competitor’s unique solutions and difficulties faced by each finalist team are described herein. Improvements for other future competitions are suggested based on the experiences of the competitors and hosts from the 2023 IEEE Drone Chase Challenge. First, software integration and documentation must be complete and easy to follow for competitors, allowing them to focus on solution development, rather than troubleshooting errors. Second, scoring metrics must be designed to test for robustness to mitigate the effect of luck and other external conditions on the evaluation of a solution. Despite the current limitations realized during the competition, competitors, hosts, and the research community benefit from developing soft and technical skills through competition participation
Conflicting and shared lifeworlds of practice: Architects and planners
Get PDFArchitects and planners have professional conflicts with each other, but they share common external constraints and opportunities in practice that shape their actions. These constraints include professional controls, societal ideologies, and organizational functions that dictate how architects and planners can practice. Their opportunities are grounded in the prescriptions that they can make. Architects and planners share work processes and ways of designing that they confront in problem solving. These constraints and opportunities are often found in the organizations within which architects and planners practice. Moreover, changes in the political economy similarly influence both professions in the work inputs and outputs that they experience