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06-04-2008, 04:44 PM

bertengineer

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Capstone Project

I am down to the last few courses with my masters and I am just looking for some info on some good subjects to research for a capstone project (graduate research project) to finish it all up. The subject I previously was working on is not panning out, plus it is a few years old. The MAS is in Aviation Safety, with a concentration in Human Factors also.

Any suggestions are appreciated

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06-04-2008, 04:52 PM

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Are you in contact with UAA? They had lots of grant money to develop/test Capstone technology early on throughout Alaska.

06-05-2008, 11:29 AM

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Different capstone, I think he's talking about the master's program equivalent of a thesis project. Daniel Webster has them assigned for each MBA cohort (group of candidates who go through the program together).

06-05-2008, 11:43 AM

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Not sure if it's the topic you abandoned, but runway incursions certainly seemed hot for a while. Someone else posted here a few months back, trolling for ideas to prevent incursions via some form of visual alert. I think I suggested powerful red lasers for painting giant vibrating X's on the taxiway pavement for no-go zones, and for progressive taxi, big arrows dynamically painted in front of planes with the N-# or flight number tagged on it.

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06-09-2008, 10:05 AM

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That is the project alright. I originally started with the 605 course in P'cola with ERAU. I was looking at the thought process of flying at MAX TIT (ITT) for long periods compared to constantly throtteling back and forth during touch and go's (C-130 stuff) and the related turbine failures we were experiencing (USMC). I was an FE at the time, but have retired and moved into the left seat of a Lear 35 and 55. Hard to get turbine failure stuff in the lear, unless anyone here has had the problem arise. Just fishing for some ideas and info.

Thanks

Rick