Congratulations to Mijan Rahman, who has just passed his General Exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate! Mijan started his Ph.D. with a study on the impact of fatigue on the safety and effectiveness of flight instruction and is now working on composite scores based on behavior, performance, and physiological state, to quantify a pilot's readiness to fly, the Fitness to Fly (F2Y) score.

Congratulations to Aayush Bhattarai, who has passed his General Exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate! Aayush is working on the design of modular flight deck information displays to assist pilots in avoiding controlled flight into terrain accidents when flying in mountainous terrain.

Our lab will be actively participating in this year's ISAP conference, with five papers, three presentations, and three posters. The posters and manuscript proceedings are all available in this collection for easy access.

Niklas Schulmeyer and Luis Alarcon Aneiva will also be presenting in the finals of the Stanley Rocscoe Best Student Paper competition,

Aayush Bhattarai has been named the 2025 recipient of the William T. Piper, Sr. General Aviation Systems Graduate Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) General Aviation Technical Committee. This award highlights his research on human-centered decision aids designed to support pilot information processing and reduce the risk of Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) in mountainous operations.

Mijan Rahman and his team won the Design for Humanity Challenge hosted by the Auburn University Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations (CDCR). The challenge is a roundtable discussion between students presented with a complex real-world scenario or problem statement that can best be solved by a team of engineers across different disciplines. Mijan's team's challenge was to design a solution to provide the necessary communication channels for local/state/federal disaster relief efforts to rural communities that do not have acess to cellular and broadband internet services.