Faculty & Staff

Dr. Albert Boquet joined the department in August of 2005 and was named Department Chair in 2006. His current projects are focused on Commercial aviation accidents in the US. He is also interested in physiological mechanisms of stress and fatigue and their resultant outcomes.

Phone: 386-226-7035

E-mail: albert.boquet@erau.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Blickensderfer is an Assistant Professor who joined the Department in January of 2004. Her interests include the acquisition and assessment of cognitive skills , training effectiveness, team performance and simulation based training. She is also the Faculty Advisor of our PSI CHI chapter and was the Faculty Co-Chair for the 2007 and 2008 Florida Student Conference on Human Factors and Applied Psychology.

Phone: 386-323-8065

E-mail: elizabeth.blickensderfer@erau.edu

Dr. Amy Bradshaw is an Assistant Professor and joined the Department in September of 2002. She is our resident clinician and teaches many of our traditional psychology courses.

Phone: 386-226-7106

E-mail: amy.bradshaw@erau.edu

Dr. Shawn Doherty is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator and joined the Department in August of 2000. His interests include visual display design, advanced technological systems, measurement of pilot performance, air traffic control domains, and human factors education. He is the program coordinator for our graduate program in human factors and systems and our student chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society.

Phone: 386-226-6249

E-mail: Shawn.Doherty@erau.edu

Dr. John French is a Professor, the Department’s Director of Research, and Chair of the Aerospace Life Science Steering Committee. He started in the Department as an Associate Professor in July 2003. His interests include Aerospace Physiology, pilot performance, psychopharmacology, and stress from fatigue and vestibular disruption.

Phone: 386-226-6384

E-mail: John.French@erau.edu

Dr. Jason Kring is an Assistant Professor and joined the Department in August of 2005. His interests include spaceflight human factors and behavioral health and human performance in extreme environments. He is the current president of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments (HPEE) and coordinates our student chapter for that group. He is also interested in team/crew performance and cultural factors in aviation and aerospace.

Phone: 386-323-8045

E-mail: Jason.Kring@erau.edu

Dr. Dahai Liu is an Associate Professor and joined the Department in August of 2002. He is a systems engineer and his research interests include performance measurement theory, UAV control systems, and human and machine behavioral modeling and simulation. Dr. Liu is also the coordinator of our capstone Human Factors IV course.

Phone: 386-226-6214

E-mail: dahai.liu@erau.edu

Dr. Maranda McBride is an Assistant Professor and joined the Department in August of 2005. She is an Industrial Engineer and her current research involves auditory perception, specifically hearing via bone conduction. She is also the Principal Investigator and Director of Embry-Riddle’s McNair Scholars Program.

Phone: 386-226-7926

E-mail: Maranda.Mcbride@erau.edu

Dr. Kelly Neville is a Visiting Associate Professor who joined the Department in Spring 2007. Her interests encompass the ways humans interact in teams and organizations and with technology in work and training contexts, and the influences that shape those interactions. Past research by Dr. Neville has involved studying coordination in co-located and distributed teams, identifying characteristics of expertise in fast-paced, high-stakes decision making domains, and assessing stress effects on cognitive performance. Dr. Neville has used this research to improve the design of training and work support systems in a number of complex work domains including satellite operations, military command-and-control, U.S. Marine Corp combined arms operations, and air combat operations. The current focus of Dr. Neville’s work is identifying and overcoming sources of breakdown in multidisciplinary system development teams.

Phone: 386-226-4922

E-mail: Kelly.Neville@erau.edu

Eric Vaden is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator and has been teaching in the department for more than 10 years. His research interests include training system design, performance measurement and human-computer interaction.

Phone: 386-226-7112

E-mail: Eric.Vaden@erau.edu