IOE Students awarded Honorable Mention in the FAA Design Competition for Universities
IOE undergraduate research assistants Kosta Kontoyiannakis, Eduardo Serrano, and Kevin Tse, in collaboration with doctoral student Marcial Lapp have been awarded Honorable Mention in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Design Competition for Universities. In addition, their research on improving airport performance under periods of extreme disruption has just been conditionally accepted for peer-reviewed publication in the Winter Simulation conference proceedings.
The FAA created this competition to engage individual students or teams of students at U.S. universities working under the guidance of a faculty mentor to address airport operations and infrastructure issues and needs. Students were presented with a number of technical challenges relating to airport operations and maintenance, runway safety, airport environmental interactions, and airport management and planning. The technical challenges embraced many engineering and science disciplines and were often used as part of a capstone design course. The Competition requires students to reach out to airport operators and industry experts to advise them in their proposals and to help them assess the efficacy of their proposed designs/solutions. It provides a framework and incentives for quality educational experiences for college students and raises student awareness of airports as a vital and interesting area for engineering and technology careers.
Please join us in congratulating them on this award!
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