Socio-technical System: Graduate-level Course Offered by the Grado Department of ISE at VT for the First Time
On June 1st, 2009, 216 passengers of Air France Flight 447 diedAre 216 deaths acceptable? Hence, how can we improve? First, we have to answer “What happened?”1. Engineered system malfunction during the flight2. Chaos and panic3. Pilots fail to intervene…plane crashes People die when socio-technical systems responsible for safety critical operations fail. Many times, we […]
Kostas Triantis, John Lawrence Professor at Virginia Tech, Granted $2 Million by NSF for Conducting Research on the Relationship of Cognitive Biases and Automation
Kostas Triantis, a professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a four-year, $2 million National Science Foundation grant to explore how cognitive biases influence trust in automation and decisions to delegate tasks to automated technologies. A brief description of the project is provided: Every effective railway operation has a strong, […]