PSAM 16 Conference Session T11 Overview
Paper 1 ZA334
Lead Author: Zahra Mohaghegh Co-author(s): Eric Allison, eric@joby.aero; Letica Cuellar-Hengartner, leticia@lanl.gov; George Ligler, gtligler@tamu.edu
| National Academies' Panel on Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology |
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| The U.S. Congress mandated the FAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) to develop a report regarding the methodology and effectiveness of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) process used by the FAA. TARAM is used to identify potential risks in currently operating airplanes, which will alert FAA officials if they need to take action to prevent potential accidents. The National Academies appointed an ad hoc committee of 12 members to undertake a study to evaluate the FAA’s TARAM process. This panel discussion will cover: Role and objectives of TARAM within the FAA’s overall safety oversight system; Assessment of the TARAM analysis process; Effectiveness of TARAM for the purposes of improving aviation safety; Recommendations to improve the methodology and effectiveness of TARAM as an element of aviation safety. |
Paper ZA334 | Download the paper file. |
Name: Zahra Mohaghegh (zahra13@illinois.edu)
Bio: Zahra Mohaghegh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She is the director of the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Research Laboratory at UIUC, focusing on the advancement of risk science and applications for the safety of complex technological systems such as commercial nuclear power plants and advanced reactors, civil aviation, and oil industries. Dr. Mohaghegh is serving as a member of the Committee on Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has conducted research and published widely on probabilistic risk assessment, probabilistic physics-of-failure analysis, uncertainty analysis, organizational-human-system reliability modeling, automation trustworthiness, and risk-informed decision-making.
Country: USA
Company: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Job Title: Associate Professor
Bio: Zahra Mohaghegh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She is the director of the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Research Laboratory at UIUC, focusing on the advancement of risk science and applications for the safety of complex technological systems such as commercial nuclear power plants and advanced reactors, civil aviation, and oil industries. Dr. Mohaghegh is serving as a member of the Committee on Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has conducted research and published widely on probabilistic risk assessment, probabilistic physics-of-failure analysis, uncertainty analysis, organizational-human-system reliability modeling, automation trustworthiness, and risk-informed decision-making.
Country: USA
Company: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Job Title: Associate Professor
Paper 2 GT336
Lead Author: George Ligler Co-author(s): Eric Allison, eric@joby.aero; Leticia Cuellar-Hengartner, leticia@lanl.gov, Zahra Mohaghegh, zahra13@illinois.edu
| National Academies' Panel on Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology |
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| The U.S. Congress mandated the FAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) to develop a report regarding the methodology and effectiveness of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) process used by the FAA. TARAM is used to identify potential risks in currently operating airplanes, which will alert FAA officials if they need to take action to prevent potential accidents. The National Academies appointed an ad hoc committee of 12 members to undertake a study to evaluate the FAA’s TARAM process. This panel discussion will cover: Role and objectives of TARAM within the FAA’s overall safety oversight system; Assessment of the TARAM analysis process; Effectiveness of TARAM for the purposes of improving aviation safety; Recommendations to improve the methodology and effectiveness of TARAM as an element of aviation safety.” |
Paper GT336 | |
Name: George Ligler (gtligler@tamu.edu)
Bio: GEORGE T. LIGLER is the proprietor of GTL Associates, a consultancy that has provided systems integration/engineering and product management services to clients on three continents. He is also a professor and the Dean’s Excellence Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering at the Texas A&M University. He has served as a subject-matter expert since the 1990s to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s implementation of both satellite-based navigation and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) as components of the Next Generation Air Transportation System. He received the RTCA Achievement Award, RTCA’s highest award, in both 2006 and 2017 (co-recipient) for his contributions. Ligler is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and is the past chair of NAE Section 12, Special Fields and Interdisciplinary Engineering. He holds a D.Phil. in mathematics and computation from the University of Oxford, with his studies supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
Country: USA
Company: GTL Associates and Texas A&M University
Job Title: Chaired Professor
Bio: GEORGE T. LIGLER is the proprietor of GTL Associates, a consultancy that has provided systems integration/engineering and product management services to clients on three continents. He is also a professor and the Dean’s Excellence Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering at the Texas A&M University. He has served as a subject-matter expert since the 1990s to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s implementation of both satellite-based navigation and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) as components of the Next Generation Air Transportation System. He received the RTCA Achievement Award, RTCA’s highest award, in both 2006 and 2017 (co-recipient) for his contributions. Ligler is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and is the past chair of NAE Section 12, Special Fields and Interdisciplinary Engineering. He holds a D.Phil. in mathematics and computation from the University of Oxford, with his studies supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
Country: USA
Company: GTL Associates and Texas A&M University
Job Title: Chaired Professor
Paper 3 EA339
Lead Author: Eric Allison Co-author(s): Letica Cuellar-Hengartner, leticia@lanl.gov
George Ligler, gtligler@tamu.edu
Zahra Mohaghegh, zahra13@illinois.edu
| National Academies' Panel on Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology |
|---|
| The U.S. Congress mandated the FAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) to develop a report regarding the methodology and effectiveness of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) process used by the FAA. TARAM is used to identify potential risks in currently operating airplanes, which will alert FAA officials if they need to take action to prevent potential accidents. The National Academies appointed an ad hoc committee of 12 members to undertake a study to evaluate the FAA’s TARAM process. This panel discussion will cover: Role and objectives of TARAM within the FAA’s overall safety oversight system; Assessment of the TARAM analysis process; Effectiveness of TARAM for the purposes of improving aviation safety; Recommendations to improve the methodology and effectiveness of TARAM as an element of aviation safety. |
Paper EA339 | |
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Paper 4 LE338
Lead Author: Leticia Hengartner Co-author(s): Eric Allison, eric@joby.aero
George Ligler, gtligler@tamu.edu
Zahra Mohaghegh, zahra13@illinois.edu
| National Academies' Panel on Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology |
|---|
| The U.S. Congress mandated the FAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) to develop a report regarding the methodology and effectiveness of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) process used by the FAA. TARAM is used to identify potential risks in currently operating airplanes, which will alert FAA officials if they need to take action to prevent potential accidents. The National Academies appointed an ad hoc committee of 12 members to undertake a study to evaluate the FAA’s TARAM process. This panel discussion will cover: Role and objectives of TARAM within the FAA’s overall safety oversight system; Assessment of the TARAM analysis process; Effectiveness of TARAM for the purposes of improving aviation safety; Recommendations to improve the methodology and effectiveness of TARAM as an element of aviation safety. |
Paper LE338 | |
Name: Leticia Hengartner (leticia@lanl.gov)
Bio: LETICIA CUELLAR-HENGARTNER is a data scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the Information Systems and Modeling group. She has expertise in statistics, stochastic modeling, machine learning, and model validation. Her work at LANL includes agent-based models, predicting disaster response, risk assessment of illegal trafficking of nuclear materials, modeling user behavior analytics, and uncertainty quantification for disease propagation models. She is the PI for an Ernst & Young founded project that focuses on developing forecasting models for audit quality, a project studying the effect of human mobility on disease propagation, and lead as co-PI the Probabilistic Effectiveness Methodology project that performs probabilistic risk assessments of nuclear smuggling. She is the recipient of the LANL 2012 Distinguished Performance Award and the 2020 and 2011 Los Alamos Award Program. She earned her masters and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Country: USA
Company: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Job Title: Scientist
Bio: LETICIA CUELLAR-HENGARTNER is a data scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the Information Systems and Modeling group. She has expertise in statistics, stochastic modeling, machine learning, and model validation. Her work at LANL includes agent-based models, predicting disaster response, risk assessment of illegal trafficking of nuclear materials, modeling user behavior analytics, and uncertainty quantification for disease propagation models. She is the PI for an Ernst & Young founded project that focuses on developing forecasting models for audit quality, a project studying the effect of human mobility on disease propagation, and lead as co-PI the Probabilistic Effectiveness Methodology project that performs probabilistic risk assessments of nuclear smuggling. She is the recipient of the LANL 2012 Distinguished Performance Award and the 2020 and 2011 Los Alamos Award Program. She earned her masters and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Country: USA
Company: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Job Title: Scientist