About Us – Feigh Research Group

The Feigh Research Group

In our complex world of humans and machines, Cognitive Engineering Center researchers in the Feigh Research Group are building the foundations, training, and technologies for safe and effective work. The CEC continues to ignore the boundaries of traditional disciplines in our search for meaningful, implementable solutions. Aerospace engineers, computer scientists, roboticists, industrial engineers, and education researchers work together to build a safer and more effective human-machine world.

Grad students Robert Walters and Vinodhini Comandur are among several researchers who have already begun to use the rotorcraft simulation lab to investigate new techniques for improving rotorcraft safety. Credit: Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (2018)

We believe

That complex sociotechnical systems of people and technology require specialized methods of design, analysis, and evaluation to ensure safe and effective work.

We specialize

In state-of-the-art techniques including work domain analysis; computational cognitive modeling; machine learning and artificial intelligence; hybrid, real-time, and adaptive control theory; ethnographies, surveys, focus groups, and interviews.

We Work

On sociotechnical systems of all domains: commercial and general aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, military command and control, in-space operations, and industrial robotics.

We Study

At the intersection of a range of disciplines: aerospace engineering, robotics, computational science and engineering, industrial and systems engineering, and engineering education.

We Enjoy

Making human-automation interaction better, doing meaningful research, authoring beautiful presentations and articles, and training the next generation of cognitive engineers.

We Become

Professors, professional engineers, consultants, and technology policy advisors.