THinC Lab News History

Lab News History

  • 12/15/16 Congratulations to Kevin Lieberman who just passed his qualifying exam!
  • 11/17/16 Congratulations to Yuzhi Wan who just passed his preliminary exam!
  • 9/23/16 Dr. Sarter, Dr. Pitts and Yuzhi Wan presented their work at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference in Washington D.C.
  • 9/18/16 Congratulations to Yuzhi Wan for winning the Student Author Presentation Support Award (SAPSA) from the HFES Council of Technical Groups!
  • 9/15/16 Congratulations to Dr. Pitts for winning first place in the ATLAS Meeting Challenges of Safe Transportation in An Aging Society Symposium poster competition hosted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
  • 8/24/16 Congratulations to Kevin Lieberman for wining the Lawrence C. Fortier Scholarship from the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA)!
  • 8/11/16 Congratulations to Dr. Julie Prinet who submitted her dissertation and passed her defense!
  • 6/21/16 Dr. Sarter served on the National Academies (Board on Human-Systems Integration) Expert Panel on FAA Staffing Issues.
  • 5/16/16 Congratulations to Yidu Lu who just passed her qualifying exam!
  • 5/11/16 Congratulations to Dr. Brandon Pitts who submitted his dissertation and passed his defense!
  • 5/2/16 Congratulations to Kevin Lieberman for winning the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!
  • 3/1/16 Brandon Pitts, Julie Prinet and Yuzhi Wan will be presenting at the 2016 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference in Washington D.C.
  • 6/2/15 Congratulations to Dr. Sarter who has been appointed as the Director of the Center for Ergonomics (read)
  • 5/5/15 Congratulations to Julie Prinet for winning second place in the Stanley Roscoe Best Student Paper Award at the International Symposium of Aviation Psychology!
  • 5/4/15 Julie Prinet presented her research at the International Symposium of Aviation Psychology
  • 5/1/15 Congratulations to Dr. Nadine Moacdieh who submitted her dissertation and passed her defense!
  • 4/28/15 Congratulations to Brandon Pitts for being inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society!
  • 2/3/15 Congratulations to Brandon Pitts for winning the College of Engineering ScholarPOWER Academic Award!
  • 1/21/15 Dr. Sarter is quoted in a Michigan Daily article on airplane automation (read)
  • 10/27/14 Brandon Pitts and Nadine Moacdieh presented their work at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference in Chicago.
  • 10/15/14 Dr. Sarter was quoted in a major article on the Air France Flight 447 crash (read)
  • 8/7/14 Dr. Sarter spoke at a meeting of the Institute of Medicine on “User-Centered Design of Health IT” (read)
  • 5/23/14 Congratulations to Dr. Sara Lu who submitted her dissertation and passed her defense!
  • 5/12/14 Brandon Pitts will be presenting his work at the 2014 Traffic Safety Conference in Health San Antonio.
  • 3/16/14 Nadine Moacdieh will be presenting her work at the Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care in Chicago.
  • 3/13/14 Congratulations to Nadine Moacdieh for winning the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!
  • 3/13/14 Congratulations to Nadine Moacdieh for winning the Barbour Scholarship!
  • 12/11/13 Dr. Nadine Sarter is serving as a witness in the NTSB Asiana 214 Crash Hearing (read)
  • 12/5/13 Congratulations to Julie Prinet who just passed her preliminary exam!
  • 11/21/13 Congratulations to Brandon Pitts who just passed his preliminary exam!
  • 11/19/13 Congratulations to Nadine Moacdieh for placing first in the University of Michigan graduate symposium poster competition!
  • 10/7/13 Dr. Stas Krupenia and colleagues from Scania and VTI visited the lab.
  • 9/30/13-10/4/13 Sara Lu, Nadine Moacdieh, and Brandon Pitts will be presenting their work in San Diego at the annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Conference.
  • 7/23/13 Congratulations to Sara Lu for winning the HFES Council of Technical Groups Student Travel Honorarium!
  • 4/5/13 Congratulations to Julie Prinet for winning the Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship!
  • 2/27/13 The College of Engineering awarded Brandon Pitts the Distinguished Leadership Award!
  • 2/26/13 Congratulations to Sara Lu for winning the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Graduate Fellowship!
  • 12/6/12 Congratulations to Dr. Huiyang Li who recently submitted her dissertation and passed her defense!
  • 11/27/12 Congratulations to Nadine Moacdieh who just passed her preliminary exam!
  • 10/22/12-10/25/12 Huiyang Li, Julie Prinet, Nadine Moacdieh, and Sara Lu will be presenting their work in Boston at the annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Conference.
  • 7/27/12 Dr. Mica Endsley visited the lab.
  • 5/13/12 Congratulations to Brandon Pitts and Julie Prinet for passing the qualifying exam!
  • 5/1/12 Professor Nadine Sarter was a Member of the Expert Panel Exploring the Implications of Human-Machine Interactions
  • 2/23/12 Dr. Bill Marras visited the lab
  • 2/17/12 Congratulations to Sara Lu for winning the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Graduate Fellowship!
  • 12/13/11 Dr. Christopher Wickens had lunch with students and visited the lab
  • 12/8/11 Congratulations to Sara Lu who just passed her preliminary exam!
  • 11/11/11 Congratulations to Nadine Moacdieh for placing first in the University of Michigan graduate symposium poster competition
  • 9/29/11 Dr. Amy Pritchett had lunch with the students and visited the lab
  • 9/1/11 Tom Ferris was runner-up in the Human Factors Prize on health care ergonomics
  • 5/24/11 Congratulations to Nadine Sarter who was promoted to Full Professor at the most recent Board of Regents meeting!
  • 4/5/11 Congratulations to Brandon Pitts for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship!
  • 3/20/11 Congratulations to Huiyang Li who was awarded the College of Engineering Distinguished Leadership Award!
  • 12/9/10 Congratulations to Huiyang Li who just passed her preliminary exam!
  • 11/11/10 Congratulations to Dr. Swapnaa Jayaraman who recently submitted her dissertation and passed her defense!
  • 10/11/10 Congratulations to Dr. Tom Ferris who recently submitted his dissertation and passed his defense!
  • 8/13/10 Dr. Nadine Sarter was invited to serve on a National Research Council – Transportation Research Board committee on ‘Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration’ (read)
  • 8/13/10 Dr. Nadine Sarter was interviewed by the National Geographic Channel for a program on ‘Aircraft Investigations’ (read)
  • 5/8/10 Swapnaa Jayaraman accepted a Research Associate and Lecturer position at the Indiana University – Bloomington
  • 5/6/10 Huiyang Li is the new Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering co-Graduate Student Coordinator with Brendan See
  • 4/13/10 Tom Ferris accepted a faculty position in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M
  • 4/10/10 Jasmine Way received the 2010 North Campus MLK Spirit Award
  • 4/10/10 The College of Engineering awarded Jasmine Way the Undergraduate Distinguished Achievement Award and Thomas Ferris the Graduate Distinguished Achievement Award
  • 3/20/10 Swapnaa Jayaraman was awarded the Rackham Barbour Scholarship