August 2010
Volume 53, Number 8
Member Milestones
HFES Fellow Diane L. Damos gave an invited presentation at the National Transportation Safety Board's Safety Forum on Professionalism in Aviation. The forum was held May 18-20 in Washington, D.C. Her talk was entitled, "The Current Status of Pilot Selection." She may be reached at damos@damosaviation.com.
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Brian M. Kleiner, HFES Fellow and professor of industrial and systems engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named the Ralph H. Bogle Professor Fellow in Industrial and Systems Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The fellowship was established to recognize excellence in teaching and scholarship and recipients hold the fellowship for a period of two years. Kleiner may be contacted at bkleiner@vt.edu.
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The National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council have named HFES Fellow Najmedin Meshkati as a member of the committee that will conduct a technical analysis of the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The committee will recommend measures with the goal of preventing similar disasters in the future. Meshkati is a professor of engineering at the University of Southern California and a Jefferson Science Fellow serving as a senior science and engineering adviser to Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. He may be reached at meshkati@usc.edu.
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| Andrew David "Andy" Keller, a leader in the Denver-area human factors/ergonomics community, passed away on July 13 after a battle with cancer. Andy earned a BA in psychology from Mankato State University, joining the Human Factors Society in 1961. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968 and worked on design and safety improvements for a personnel carrier. He later joined IBM as a human factors engineer in product development and assurance, and then as a site occupational ergonomics coordinator. Andy earned an MA in human factors psychology at the University of South Dakota and achieved BCPE certification in 1993. After 17 years at IBM, he worked as a self-employed consultant under the business name Human Factors Design.
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| Andy was a charter member of the HFES Rocky Mountain Chapter, served as chapter president for five years, and for many years was treasurer and director. He played a major role in the revitalization of the chapter in 1997; with his help, the chapter has continued to be active to this day. He will be remembered by Rocky Mountain Chapter members as a pleasure to have at meetings. He had a very open and outgoing personality and invariably would raise interesting questions that would reflect his own unique perspective and stimulate thought and discussion.
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Have you received an award or other honor? Changed employment or been promoted? Published a book or been appointed editor of a journal or series? Send your Member Milestone items to HFES Managing Editor Scott MacDonald, scott@hfes.org.
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